The Mekong Business Initiative organized a Demo Day to mark the end of the 5-month Smart City Innovation Challenge: a unique initiative to identify innovative enterprises from around the world with the potential to address real urban challenges facing Vietnamese...

Financial technology can catalyze innovation, lending, and improvements to infrastructure. Policy Reform to improve access to fiscal resources and inclusion is a necessary precursor. The Mekong Business Initiative, a program sponsored by the Government of Australia,...

YANGON, MYANMAR - Building Markets launched ‘Mekong Angels’ (www.mekongangels.info) - a website with open-source databases and survey insights about angel/seed investments in the Myanmar, Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam. The website provides an overview of the...

Tom Moyes, Project Director at the Mekong Business Initiative (MBI) presented research on funding for startups at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) workshop on promoting innovation for startups. The 2-day workshop took place in Hanoi, Viet Nam, where...

Meeting this week in Vietnam’s ancient city of Hue, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum placed its focus on women entrepreneurs. Dominic Mellor, Senior Country Economist of the Asian Development Bank and head of the Mekong Business Initiative (MBI) was...

Asian Development Bank, Australian Government Launch AgriTech Accelerator for the Mekong Region SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA (7 September 2017) – A new agritech accelerator will harness entreprenueship and technology to transform the Mekong region’s agricultural industry into...

The Mekong Business Initiative (MBI) was invited by the "Investing in Women" project which is funded by the Australian Government to attend the ASEAN Women’s Business Conference to present their work in supporting women-owned businesses in the region. The conference...

The Mekong Business Initiative (MBI), a joint venture between the Government of Australia and the Asian Development Bank, has unveiled a new agricultural startup accelerator program called MATCh: the Mekong Agriculture Technology Challenge. MATCh seeks to enhance the...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – August 3, 2017 – The Young Entrepreneurs Association of Cambodia (YEAC) in collaboration with the Cambodia Women Entrepreneurs Association,  Cambodia Chamber of Commerce, and Mekong Business Initiative launched a groundbreaking Business...

Hanoi, Vietnam – 27 July 2017 - Vietnam’s urban centers are growing at the fastest clip in ASEAN and challenging cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to provide affordable housing, control traffic congestion, manage waste, supply clean water, integrate green...