Japanese beverage company Kirin Holdings said on Monday that its military-linked partner in a Myanmar brewery has filed a new petition to liquidate the joint venture, Reuters reports.

Kirin has been in a dispute with local partner Myanma Economic Holdings Public Company Limited (MEHPCL) on how to dissolve their brewery venture following the military coup, the reports says.

In a statement Kirin says it just became aware that MEHPCL filed a petition on 27 January to a Yangon court seeking to liquidate the venture, a day after the same court dismissed a similar petition. Kirin says it will respond to the petition.