Thailand’s Ghost Buildings: The Wall Street Journal video
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I wrote a few weeks ago about the ghost buildings of Bangkok, abandoned half-built skyscrapers left behind after the Asian financial crisis 10 years ago. The Wall Street Journal has produced an excellent short video report abbout them
This is an excellent short video segment by Wall Street Journal reporter Patrick Barra on the ghost buildings of Bangkok. He namechecks the same abandoned towers I mentioned in my previous article, but he also shows a couple more really huge places that have just been left to rot, as well as going inside one of them (which can't have been the safest option). I wonder if they did this specifically for distributing on the Net, or if they've made it to be shown on television too? I'd really like to do some stuff like this - making very short (3 minutes and less) reports on different stuff in Bangkok and Thailand. What do you think of travel clips like this? Are they fun? Or ruin the mystique?
Anyway, here's the clip:
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8 Responses to “Thailand’s Ghost Buildings: The Wall Street Journal video”
Pitt
August 17th, 2007
A taxi meter, a tuk-tuk, a motorcycle taxi, a long tail boat AND a mango in a 3 minute video report about buildings???!!!
I think that short videos are a great idea, but please more info, less mango. ;))
Hpotamus
August 17th, 2007
[...] over at TravelHappy.info wrote about this story a month or two ago (and by chance followed up on it again last week). I find the whole concept [...]
Excellent and very interesting video.
Pix
August 29th, 2007
Las torres fantasma de Bangkok [video]…
Hace diez años Tailandia experimentaba una excelente economÃa por lo que se empezaron a construir grandes rascacielos y entonces sucedió, llegó la crisis y dichos edificios ya estaban en etapas adelantadas de construcción … asà que se llegó al…
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September 23rd, 2007
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October 10th, 2007
Lets hope this loan crisis ends soon. Or else there’ll be more of these ghosts buildings.