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

Officials arrested eight hostel workers in Laos on Monday for allegedly poisoning travelers with methanol, according to ...

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 ...

Vang Vieng is a town popular with backpackers, usually young people who travel on a budget, and has a reputation for cheap ...

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

Six people have died, including Simone White from Kent, after falling ill in the town of Vang Vieng, a town popular with ...

BANGKOK: Police in Laos have detained the manager and seven staff of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following the deaths ...

Doctors have revealed a common treatment to slow the effects of methanol poisoning. It comes after six people died following ...

A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has killed at least six tourists and potentially injured scores of others ...

The arrest came after two Danish citizens, an American, a Briton, and two Australians died after drinking alcohol believed to ...

A third Australian has fallen ill after consuming methanol-laced alcohol in Laos. So far, six people have died and eight ...