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'Ghost Tower' haunts Bangkok 20 years after financial crisis

Updated: 2017-03-01 18:34

BANGKOK --The 49-story Bangkok high-rise was supposed to feature luxury condos for hundreds of newly affluent Thai families, but it was abandoned unfinished when the Asian financial crisis struck in 1997.

Now called the "Ghost Tower," it's a monument to mistakes made and an object of curiosity to a steady stream of visitors.

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