Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the ...

The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in ...

The father of an Australian teenager who died from suspected methanol poisoning while on a backpacking holiday has issued a ...

The bosses all went to Vientiane [the capital ... led to a police crackdown. Since then, Laos has tried to rebrand Vang Vieng ...

Eight employees of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained for questioning after six foreign tourists died from ...

Southeast Asia has the "highest rates of methanol poisoning globally", said Al Jazeera, and this is often blamed on "economic ...

The death of six foreigners in Vang Vieng threatens to undermine the government’s desperate attempts to revive its tourism ...

Officials say a young Australian woman has died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos, and the U.S. State Department has ...

Authorities have named the American tourist who was one of five people to die of suspected methanol poisoning at a hostel in ...

Laos has tried to rebrand Vang Vieng as less of a party destination ... of methanol-laced alcoholic drinks,” the US Embassy in Vientiane said in a health alert Friday. “Please be alert ...