Vang Vieng, a popular backpacker destination in northern Laos, is at the center of an unfolding tragedy after several Western nations, including the United States and the United Kingdom ...

The owner of a backpackers hostel where two young Australians were staying before they fell violently ill from methanol ...

Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the headlines for all the wrong reasons once again. "Just make sure you push ...

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

Tourists from the U.S., Australia, Denmark and the U.K. have died. A tourism police officer said a "number of people" had ...

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

With little information forthcoming from Laos authorities, some travelers in Vang Vieng and friends of those who died have taken it upon themselves to investigate. One, who asked not to be named ...

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

Vang Vieng, a town of around 25,000 people on the banks of the Nam Song River in central Laos, has for decades been a firm fixture on the so-called "Banana Pancake Trail" – the backpacker path ...