Text messages from two Danish backpackers who died in a mass poisoning in Laos suggest the pair had been vomiting blood for ...

A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under the spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has ...

As the sun slowly dips behind the jagged peaks of Mount Nam Xay, a group of brightly coloured hot air balloons drift across ...

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

The local governor visited the hostel in which some of the victims were staying, promising justice for those responsible.

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

The U.S., Australia and U.K. have issued warnings for travelers in Vang Vieng after several tourists died in a suspected ...

The government of Laos has released its first statement in response to tourists becoming ill and dying from methanol ...

An Australian teenager has become the sixth foreign tourist to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos, as a ...

A second Australian teenager has died of suspected methanol poisoning, bringing to six the number of foreign tourists who ...

Details have been murky over the number of tourists affected and the possible source of the methanol-laced drinks.

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok ...