{"id":12530,"date":"2019-12-28T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/29\/australian-craft-beer-brewer-faces-criticism-over-partnership-with-myanmar-military"},"modified":"2019-12-28T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T13:00:09","slug":"australian-craft-beer-brewer-faces-criticism-over-partnership-with-myanmar-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12530","title":{"rendered":"Australian craft beer brewer faces criticism over partnership with Myanmar military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brewer\u2019s parent company, Kirin, provides foreign currency to military accused of genocide<\/p>\n<p>Australian craft beer brewer Lion Little World has faced international criticism over a business partnership with the Myanmar military, which is accused of genocide in its persecution of the Rohingya ethnic and religious minority.<\/p>\n<p>Australia-based Lion Little World Beverages is a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese beverage giant Kirin, which owns a little over half of both Myanmar Brewery and Mandalay Brewery in partnership with Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd (MEHL), a conglomerate of the Myanmar military.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/29\/australian-craft-beer-brewer-faces-criticism-over-partnership-with-myanmar-military\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brewer\u2019s parent company, Kirin, provides foreign currency to military accused of genocideAustralian craft beer brewer Lion Little World has faced international criticism over a business partnership with the Myanmar military, which is accused of genocid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1016,6,82,85,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-beer","category-business","category-myanmar","category-rohingya","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12531,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530\/revisions\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}