Chen Shu-chu still has not fully recovered from appendicitis surgery
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/05
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taitung vegetable seller Chen Shu-chu (陳樹菊), honored by Time
Chen Shu-chu to retire following appendicitis surgery. (By Central News Agency)
Magazine in 2010 for her philanthropic donations, has decided to retire due to poor health, reports said Thursday.
Chen, 69, has been selling produce in her native region since the age of 13, but from May, she will be succeeded by her nephew, the Central News Agency reported.
Time named her as one of the 100 most influential people of 2010, Reader’s Digest named her Asian of the Year, and Forbes Asia chose her as one of its 48 heroes of philanthropy. Two years later, she also received the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
Chen fell ill at the market just before the Lunar New Year and has not fully recovered from surgery for appendicitis since, sparking her decision to retire, CNA reported.
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