Former KCRC chairman Michael Tien Puk-sun says he 'will still be friends' with former chief executive Samuel Lai Man-hay despite revelations of a bitter management feud last year.
Speaking a day after Mr Lai launched his book, The Longest Week, Mr Tien said he found publication of details of closed-door meetings inappropriate but did not see the book as a personal attack.
'We will still be friends when we see each other again.'
Mr Tien said he had not read the book and his comments were based on extracts cited by the media.
He said he had always regarded the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation as being a government-owned organisation that should proactively communicate with the media and be accountable to the public.
The book recounts a nine-day period of turmoil that unfolded last year. Mr Lai - who quit a day after shaking hands with Mr Tien in a gesture of reconciliation - expressed dissatisfaction over a request by Mr Tien during a staff meeting that all staff be public relations-minded.