End of the honeymoon? Hong Kong leader John Lee’s Weibo account drew 1.5 million followers, now some are raising a stink over dump site

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. — SCMP

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.