Probe into Japan beer firm's links to Myanmar rights abuses 'inconclusive'; Myanmar Covid-19 cases goes above 128,000

Doctors communicating with each other using walkie-talkies inside the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Ayeyarwady Covid Centre at the Thuwana football stadium in Yangon, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. - AFP

YANGON, Jan 7 (AFP): Japanese beer giant Kirin has announced that an investigation into whether money from its joint ventures with the Myanmar military had funded rights abuses was "inconclusive".

Myanmar stands accused of genocide at the UN's top court after a brutal 2017 crackdown by the military forced 750,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to refugee camps in Bangladesh.