Vang Vieng: What to know about the Laos backpacker town at center of suspected methanol poisonings
The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in Southeast Asia that has worked hard in recent years to shed its reputation for excess.
The deaths of six backpackers this week, including British solicitor Simone White, has raised the spectre of a Laotian ...
A New Zealand citizen poisoned after drinking contaminated alcohol in a popular tourist town in Laos has returned home, ...
By far the largest groups are from neighbouring Thailand and China, the latter shuttling south on the newly finished ...
The Lao government is "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists from drinking alcohol contaminated with methanol and pledged to prosecute those responsible. Two Danes, two Australians, a ...
A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died, according to a family ...
Death of second Australian teenager comes as the owner of Nana Backpackers Hostel in Vang Vieng is detained by Laotian police ...
Vang Vieng - a tiny town on the Nam Song river surrounded by limestone mountains and paddy fields - is known for its scenery.
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