Development
Pakistan's Judiciary Embraces Mediation Training
The Chief Justice hosted Singapore's SIMC as its trainers ran an accreditation program for judges at the Federal Judicial Academy.
Impact & wins
Proof that mediation works.
Disputes settled, laws passed, institutions built, milestones reached — a regularly updated record of mediation's momentum across the Asia Pacific. Every story links to its original source.
Development
Development
A Rare Test of Treaty-Based Conciliation Between States
Cambodia has initiated UNCLOS Annex V conciliation with Thailand over the Gulf of Thailand's Overlapping Claims Area.
Development
Korea's Biggest Divorce Case Puts Mediation on the Front Page
The Seoul High Court is using judicial mediation to seek a negotiated end to the trillion-won SK Group asset dispute.
Win
The World's Newest Mediation Body Just Settled Its First Case
Seven months after opening, IOMed in Hong Kong resolved its first international commercial dispute — a maritime charterparty matter — entirely through mediation.
Development
India's Supreme Court Turns Settlement into a National Festival
SAMADHAN SAMAROH 2026 invites litigants across the country to resolve pending Supreme Court cases by consent, culminating in a special Lok Adalat this August.
Milestone
The Singapore Convention Keeps Growing: Oman Makes 21
Oman's accession extends treaty-backed enforceability of mediated settlements along the Asia–Gulf trade corridors.
Milestone
Malaysia Clears the Path to the Singapore Convention
Parliament has passed the implementing law that will let mediated cross-border settlements be enforced directly in Malaysian courts.
Milestone
China Gives Commercial Mediation the Force of National Law
The first national Commercial Mediation Regulation — 33 articles, effective May 2026 — puts a legal floor under mediation across the world's second-largest economy.