The Democratic Party's central committee voted 21 to 1 to suspend the former lawmaker's membership after he launched a controversial petition to conditionally support the government's political reform package. Wong had earlier scrapped the plan after a Beijing official ruled out any concessions.

The former wife of wealthy businessman Raymond Hung Kin-sang might be feeling the pinch after Hong Kong's top court ruled he need not share future profits with her from a HK$665 million development on The Peak, quashing a lower court ruling. Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma Tao-li wrote of the case: "It reflects the worst characteristics of matrimonial litigation."