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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Six foreign tourists including Simone White, a 28-year-old British lawyer, have died in the last two weeks from suspected ...

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

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died, according to a family ...