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 ...

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

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

The other four victims have been named as Simone White, a 28-year-old lawyer from the UK; James Louis Hutson, a 57-year-old ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Two Danes, two Australians, a Briton and an American died from methanol poisoning after visiting Vang Vieng, an idyllic town ...

The Lao government is "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists from drinking alcohol contaminated with ...