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

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 ...

SINGAPORE: Laos has banned the sale and consumption of a brand of whisky and vodka following the death of six tourists from ...

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

The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the mass poisoning that has killed at least six tourists, pledging ...

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

I still remember the first time I saw Vang Vieng, in Laos. It was many years ago, before the Chinese began pouring money in ...

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

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

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

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after the incident in the popular ...