A 90-year-old has been awarded "Woman Of The Year" for (be) Britain's oldest full-time employee—still working 40 hours a week. Now Irene Astbury works from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily at the pet shop in Macclesfield, she opened with her late husband Les. Her years of hard work have (final) been acknowledged after a customer nominated(提名) her to be Cheshire's Woman Of The Year.
Picking up her "Lifetime Achievement" award, proud Irene (declare) she had no plans (retire) from her 36-year-old business. Irene said, "I don't see any reason to give up work. I love coming here and seeing my family and all the friends I (make) over the years. I work not because I have to, because I want to. "
Granddaughter Gayle Parks, 31—who works alongside her in the family business—said it remained unknown as to who nominated Irene for the award. She said, "We don't have any idea who put Grandma forward. When we got a call (say) she was short-listed, we thought it was joke. But then we got an official letter and we were blown away. We are so proud of her. It's (wonder). "
Alibaba founder Jack Ma, his company has been valued at more than $ 221 billion of which Ma owned 6%, is put in the top position among China's wealthiest. But he stays outside the list ^ the world's 10 rich people.
Fought against a hard life, young Ma still managed to learn English well enough to gain a degree and became a teacher. Afterwards he started a translation agency in which took him to the US，where he introduced to the Internet. His fate was bound to change before he was accidentally appointed to take an American visitor Jerry Yang, a co-founder of Yahoo, in a tour of the Great Wall. The meeting obvious proved to be a turning point for all of them, promoting the birth of Alibaba and later cooperation with Jerry Yang.
