Kirin is the parent company of Lion, which boasts Australian brews including Tooheys, Furphy, XXXX and Little Creatures. Its departure from Myanmar has been both praised and criticised.
Civilian homes in a historic Catholic village have been burned down by junta troops in Myanmar for the second time in a month. On June 7, more than two-thirds of some 500 homes were destroyed in fires started during a military raid on the village of Chan Thar in the predominantly Buddhist region of Sagaing.