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The Australian wrote:
ALMOST 11 years to the day since it first acquired a stake in Lion Nathan around Anzac Day 1998, Kirin has wrapped up 100 per cent control again on Anzac Day for an effective price of $11.50 a share or some 12.1 times 2009 financial year earnings of $654 million. . . more

BTW - on the topic of "kirin", the first Chinese to see a giraffe apparently thought it looked like the mythical "kirin", and that's why that mythical beast and giraffes are both called "kirin" in Japanese . . . more