Myanmar chooses business teams to enter Mekong business challenges

YANGON (Xinhua) - Myanmar has chosen two teams to enter the Mekong Business Challenges-2014 slated for March 15, 2015 in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, official sources said Sunday.

The two Myanmar business teams, which won at the professional level of the Fourth  Myanmar Business Model Contest-2014 on Saturday, will  compete with smart teams from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and China's Yunnan Province.

With their business model entitled "Effective and Inexpensive Water Filter," Wah Wah Aye Khine and Yu Mon Kham represent the first winners of the contest.

Table Top Grocers is the second team winning the contest with their business plan entitled "Starting up a Door-to-Door Grocery Delivery Business."

The Myanmar business model contest was jointly organized by the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Cross-Border International Education Support Foundation of Japan, aimed at inspiring and establishing the new generation of Myanmar entrepreneurs.  

The Japanese foundation has pledged business links between Japanese entrepreneurs and participants with the best business models at the challenge.