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

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 ...

As some of their number succumbed to methanol poisoning, other guests at the Laotian hostel at the centre of the probe tried ...

Tributes have poured in from friends and family of Simone, who have described feeling “devastated” by her death, Chronicle ...

Sunrise host Natalie Barr has broken down after the parents of Melbourne teens Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles returned home ...

Facing methanol poisoning in a place like Laos means hurdles to getting help, including accessing health care in time.

The bodies of two Melbourne teenagers who died in Laos after suspected methanol poisoning have been returned home. Bianca ...

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

The arrest came after two Danish citizens, an American, a Briton, and two Australians died after drinking alcohol believed to ...

A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has killed at least six tourists and potentially injured scores of others ...