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

Holly Bowles, 19, (pictured) of Melbourne in Australia, died from suspected methanol poisoning on Friday during her travels, ...

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 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, ...

Vang Vieng - a tiny town on the Nam Song river surrounded by limestone mountains and paddy fields - is known for its scenery. It is also known as a party town - a reputation Laos officials have been ...