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It began as a trickle, then became a flood of complaints about the foul smell from Hong Kong's Ta Kwu Ling landfill, 2km from Shenzhen, across the border. Over two months, Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu 's maiden account on Weibo, China's Twitter-like microblogging site, has attracted mostly friendly comments, but some unhappy messages began turning up. "Chief Executive...

Phoenix TV quoted Weibo comments after a whole crowd turned up complaining about landfill stench. John Lee went on social media to reach out to mainland Chinese, now he has to deal with online storm.

Hong Kong leader’s following on Weibo vastly outnumbers the 30,800 he has on Facebook and 7,300 on Instagram. Some 85.7% of the 165,000 interactions on his Facebook account are positive with just 1.4% indicating ‘angry’ or ‘sad’ responses.

Chen also subsequently thanked Lee for helping with the clarification.