Hong Kong-based IOMed settles second dispute as body marks its first year

South China Morning Post20 October 2026, 14:42 UTCMalaysia

A Hong Kong-headquartered intergovernmental mediation body has successfully settled its second case, an infrastructure dispute in Malaysia, and has received “more than a dozen” inquiries, its head has revealed on the organisation’s first anniversary. Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah, secretary general of the International Organisation for Mediation (IOMed), told a reception marking the body’s first anniversary that it had wrapped up a case on Tuesday and was handling another. “Our ambition is not simply to...

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