The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed its condolences after a second Australian teen transferred from Laos to be treated for methanol poisoning after drinking tainted liquor, died on Sunday.

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 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 ...

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, ...