Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the ...
Back then, the iconic mode of tourist transport in Vang Vieng, known simply as "tubing", involved travellers floating downriver on the inflated inner tube of a tractor tyre, disembarking at the ...
Six tourists were killed and scores were injured from mass alcohol poisoning in a little town known as a backpacker paradise ...
An illegal trade in alcohol and drugs, and lax policing, made last week’s tragic deaths in Vang Vieng inevitable ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The deaths of six Western tourists – including Australian teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles – due to inadvertently ...
The death of six foreigners in Vang Vieng threatens to undermine the government’s desperate attempts to revive its tourism ...
Out on the river there is little sign that the poisonings are stopping people coming to Vang Vieng. Late November is peak ...
Vang Vieng, once famous for its raucous parties, has weathered various scandals over the years. The town was in the past ...
The suspected methanol-laced vodka blamed for the deaths of six backpackers in Laos, including Australian teenagers Bianca ...