Two Danes, two Australians, a Briton and an American have died from methanol poisoning after visiting Vang Vieng, an idyllic ...

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 ...

Text messages from two Danish backpackers who died in a mass poisoning in Laos suggest the pair had been vomiting blood for ...

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

The local governor visited the hostel in which some of the victims were staying, promising justice for those responsible.

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 ...

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 ...