Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt wants to use the Information Act to publicise contracts pertaining to the construction of Bangkok’s Green Line electric train network. The network is currently at the centre of a dispute between the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc (BTSC), with the former owing the latter more than 30 billion baht for operating the Green Line. BMA’s debts consist of three different components — the first being debts owed to the government, the second debts owed for purchasing the network’s supporting electrical systems, and final…

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