Palm oil industry veteran Uncle Boon keeps on learning

'Uncle Boon' believes he has led a full life and is trying to get used to the slower pace of retirement life.

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.