{"id":8868,"date":"2021-01-15T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T11:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/companies\/article\/3117885\/arbitrators-ebram-offers-quick-mediation-contractual-disputes"},"modified":"2021-01-15T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T11:24:16","slug":"arbitrators-ebram-offers-quick-mediation-of-contractual-disputes-for-hk200-as-covid-19-roils-hong-kongs-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/arbitrators-ebram-offers-quick-mediation-of-contractual-disputes-for-hk200-as-covid-19-roils-hong-kongs-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Arbitrator\u2019s eBRAM offers quick mediation of contractual disputes for HK$200 as Covid-19 roils Hong Kong\u2019s small businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"An arbitrator backed by Hong Kong\u2019s government is preparing for contractual disputes to increase in the new year, as the coronavirus outbreak disrupts business operations and work arrangements in a city that is still struggling with its worst recession on record.Disputes will last until business activities slowly return to normal in 2022, said Thomas So Shiu-tsung, director of the Electronic Business Related Arbitration & Mediation (eBRAM) centre. The non-profit arbitrator, which started\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/companies\/article\/3117885\/arbitrators-ebram-offers-quick-mediation-contractual-disputes\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An arbitrator backed by Hong Kong\u2019s government is preparing for contractual disputes to increase in the new year, as the coronavirus outbreak disrupts business operations and work arrangements in a city that is still struggling with its worst recession&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8869,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions\/8869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}