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 ...

Amongst the tourists who tragically lost their lives were American traveller James Louis Hutson, 57, 28-year-old British ...

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

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

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

Details have been murky over the number of tourists affected and the possible source of the methanol-laced drinks.

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

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

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 ...

Out on the river there is little sign that the poisonings are stopping people coming to Vang Vieng. Late November is peak ...