Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the ...

Laotian authorities have been working to rid the town of its deadly reputation. Clearly, they haven’t worked hard enough.

Most people who want to get from Vientiane to Vang Vieng take the bus. The small, secluded town is a two-hour ride from ...

Six tourists were killed and scores were injured from mass alcohol poisoning in a little town known as a backpacker paradise ...

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

The death of six foreigners in Vang Vieng threatens to undermine the government’s desperate attempts to revive its tourism ...

I still remember the first time I saw Vang Vieng, in Laos. It was many years ago, before the Chinese began pouring money in ...

In the early- to mid-2000s, Vang Vieng gained a notorious reputation on the Southeast Asian “banana pancake” trail for its wild parties and river tubing culture, along with the wide ...

The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in ...