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

It is believed their alcoholic drinks may have contained methanol, an industrial chemical often used in bootleg alcohol. For ...

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

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 ...

Holly Bowles, 19, is one of six tourists who have died in Laos from what is believed to be methanol poisoning. She passed ...

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

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, ...

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