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Aung Phay Kyi Soe

Aung Phay Kyi Soe
Aung Phay Kyi Soe has been working as a journalist since 2013, covering culture, tourism, the environment and health. Before joining Frontier in July 2020, he worked for The Messenger, Trade Times, Democracy Today, The Voice, Mawkun and the Myanmar Times.
Although nearly all of Yangon is officially still under lockdown, most rules are no longer being enforced. (Hkun Lat | Frontier)
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New normal: government confuses with Yangon ‘stay-at-home’ statement

A poorly worded statement announcing that restrictions had been lifted in three Yangon townships has caused widespread confusion, with many instead thinking much of the city was no longer under stay-at-home orders.
BY Andrew Nachemson & Aung Phay Kyi Soe

 

Volunteers with Yangon's Free Funeral Service Society transport a body from the deceased's home to the Yayway cemetery on December 11, 2020. (Hkun Lat | Frontier)
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Missing data leaves the pandemic’s true death toll in Myanmar in the dark

It may be a long time, if ever, before the country can fully account for the loss of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, and anecdotal evidence from cemeteries and hospitals in Yangon shows a muddled picture.
BY Aung Phay Kyi Soe

 

Drivers, pedestrians and vendors fill the streets of Yagon's Hledan Township, as in much of the rest of the city, on November 24, despite stay-at-home orders still officially remaining in effect. (Hkun Lat | Frontier)
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Myanmar’s COVID-19 response is at a crossroads, and something has to give

More than two months after they were introduced, residents and officials in Yangon are increasingly ignoring stay-at-home orders, yet the government insists infection rates need to fall before they can be rolled back.
BY Aung Phay Kyi Soe & Thomas Kean

 

Election commission staff prepare to conduct advance voting for COVID-19 patients at the AYA treatment centre in Yangon on November 6. (Hkun Lat | Frontier)
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Gaps and flaws: bureaucracy disenfranchises hundreds of COVID-19 patients

Poor planning and communication from sub-commissions and a byzantine election bureaucracy left hundreds of quarantined and COVID-19-infected voters in Yangon Region unable to cast their ballots.
BY Aung Phay Kyi Soe

 

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Volume 6, Issue 18

  • January 27, 2021
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Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes
The early delivery of vaccines is one of the many boons of the country’s geopolitics, but to really take advantage, Myanmar must bury the legacy of its isolationist past.
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Will the Kayin BGF go quietly?
The Kayin State Border Guard Force has come under intense pressure from the Tatmadaw over its extensive, controversial business interests and there’s concern the ultimatum could trigger fresh hostilities in one of the country’s most war-torn areas.
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