{"id":26393,"date":"2021-02-04T16:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/05\/drinks-giant-kirin-urged-to-cut-ties-with-myanmar-joint-venture-linked-to-military"},"modified":"2021-02-04T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:30:30","slug":"drinks-giant-kirin-urged-to-cut-ties-with-myanmar-joint-venture-linked-to-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/04\/drinks-giant-kirin-urged-to-cut-ties-with-myanmar-joint-venture-linked-to-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinks giant Kirin urged to cut ties with Myanmar joint venture linked to military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese beer company effectively \u2018empowers\u2019 junta through its joint ventures, rights group says<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/myanmar-coup-aung-san-suu-kyi-workers-hospitals-civil-disobedience-aung-san-suu-kyi\">Myanmar coup: health workers at 70 hospitals join civil disobedience campaign<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Human rights groups have urged Japanese brewing giant Kirin, the multinational behind beer brands XXXX, Tooheys, Kirin, and Little Creatures, to cut ties with its Myanmar business operations, alleging its continued part-ownership of two military-linked breweries there makes it effectively complicit in war crimes committed by the military in Myanmar.<\/p><p>The company owns just over half of of both Myanmar Brewery and Mandalay Brewery in partnership with Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd (MEHL), a company controlled by the country\u2019s military that a UN investigation has found is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/Documents\/HRBodies\/HRCouncil\/FFM-Myanmar\/EconomicInterestsMyanmarMilitary\/Infographic1_Governance_Structure_of_MEHL_and_MEC.pdf\">overseen<\/a> by the commander-in-chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/02\/myanmar-coup-military-tightens-grip-amid-calls-for-suu-kyi-to-be-freed\">Myanmar coup: civil disobedience campaign begins amid calls for Aung San Suu Kyi's release<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/feb\/02\/australia-faces-calls-to-cut-military-ties-with-myanmar-after-coup\">Australia faces calls to cut military ties with Myanmar after coup<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/02\/myanmar-coup-who-are-the-military-figures-running-the-country\">Myanmar coup: who are the military figures running the country?<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/05\/drinks-giant-kirin-urged-to-cut-ties-with-myanmar-joint-venture-linked-to-military\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/05\/drinks-giant-kirin-urged-to-cut-ties-with-myanmar-joint-venture-linked-to-military\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese beer company effectively \u2018empowers\u2019 junta through its joint ventures, rights group saysMyanmar coup: health workers at 70 hospitals join civil disobedience campaignHuman rights groups have urged Japanese brewing giant Kirin, the multinational &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,6158,923,2046,6,1739,1589,1305,2038,111,166],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26394,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393\/revisions\/26394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}