{
  "id": 522217,
  "title": "Hong Kong-based mediation body ‘ready to tackle state disputes, serve as Asian legal hub’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/hong-kong-based-mediation-body-ready-to-tackle-state-disputes-serve-522217",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-11T00:30:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post-hong-kong",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3363573/hong-kongs-iomed-ready-tackle-state-disputes-serve-asian-legal-hub"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A former Hong Kong justice minister who now heads an intergovernmental mediation body based in the city has said the organisation is ready to handle state-to-state disputes, with six countries having nominated more than 100 mediators from the legal, diplomatic and academic fields. Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah, secretary general of the International Organisation for Mediation (IOMed), told the South…",
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        "title": "Hong Kong-based mediation body ‘ready to tackle state disputes, serve as Asian legal hub’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/hong-kong-based-mediation-body-ready-to-tackle-state-disputes-serve",
        "published": "2026-08-11T00:30:11.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}