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

Australia has warned travelers against drinking spirits made by a Laos distiller, following the deaths of six foreign ...

Australia has warned travellers not to drink some liquors in Laos, following a spate of deaths linked to suspected methanol ...

The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the mass poisoning that has killed at least six tourists, pledging ...

Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local authorities as they investigate the deaths of ...

I still remember the first time I saw Vang Vieng, in Laos. It was many years ago, before the Chinese began pouring money in ...

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after the incident in the popular ...

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

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

The deaths of six backpackers this week, including British solicitor Simone White, has raised the spectre of a Laotian ...