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 ...

By far the largest groups are from neighbouring Thailand and China, the latter shuttling south on the newly finished ...

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

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

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

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

They have stopped serving shots in the backpacker bars of Vang Vieng. The night spots of this south-east Asian tourist town ...

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 ...

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