Tag: Burma Campaign UK

Activists’ boycott list grows longer

On the heels of its recent success in forcing Japanese beer conglomerate Kirin Holdings to reconsider in part its joint-ventures partners in Myanmar, activist group “Burma Campaign UK” released an updated list of “military products

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Kirin suspends dividends from Myanmar joint venture

In a press release from Thursday November 11, Kirin Holdings Company Ltd, announced that all dividend payments from Myanmar Brewery Limited (MBL), and Mandalay Brewery Limited (MDL), to Kirin and its Myanmar-army affiliated partner Myanma Economic Ho

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Biggest shipping company in the world pulls out of military-operated ports

Danish integrated shipping company, active in ocean and inland freight transportation and associated services, Maersk, has announced last week that it will stop using military-owned ports in Myanmar before the end of the month. The statement was repo

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