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

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

Vang Vieng, Laos - 13, 2024 Video shot from inside the hostel on Nov 13, 2024. Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in ...

The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the mass poisoning that has killed at least six tourists, pledging ...

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 ...

Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local authorities as they investigate the deaths of ...

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after the incident in the popular ...

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died, according to a family ...

Vang Vieng, a popular backpacker destination in northern Laos, is at the center of an unfolding tragedy after several Western nations, including the United States and the United Kingdom ...

Southeast Asia has the "highest rates of methanol poisoning globally", said Al Jazeera, and this is often blamed on "economic ...