Although well past retirement age at 93, Malaysia’s pioneer planter Datuk Boon Weng Siew – or Uncle Boon, as he prefers to be called – is not planning to stop any time soon.
Despite becoming wheelchair-bound after a fall on March 24 left him with a fractured left kneecap, the rubber and palm oil industry veteran refuses to let it stop him from going about his daily routine.
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