Six tourists have died, after they were suspected to have drunk contaminated alcohol in Laos. According to media reports, ...

A New Zealand citizen poisoned after drinking contaminated alcohol in a popular tourist town in Laos has returned home, ...

Shocking details have emerged in the deaths of Australians Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, as well as four others, from ...

A methanol poisoning incident in Vang Vieng, Laos, has resulted in six tourist deaths, including citizens from Australia, ...

Methanol is sometimes added to mixed drinks at disreputable bars as a cheaper alternative to ethanol, but can cause severe ...

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

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed the New Zealander who is believed to have been poisoned with methanol in Laos has returned home. Two Australian teenagers, a British national, ...

Six people are so far dead, with the cause suspected as methanol-tainted drinks in the town of Vang Vieng, Laos.

A major, transnational investigation is underway to determine how six people fell ill and died after downing free tainted ...

Melbourne teenagers Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones, both aged 19, had been enjoying the trip of their young lives there when ...

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