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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A New Zealander who had fallen ill from suspected methanol poisoning in Laos has now returned home, authorities have ...