Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the headlines for all the wrong reasons once again. "Just make sure you push ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Vang Vieng: Tiger, the “finest blended” Laos vodka, costs $2.50 a bottle in the shops down the road from Nana Backpacker Hostel.

An illegal trade in alcohol and drugs, and lax policing, made last week’s tragic deaths in Vang Vieng inevitable Most people who want to get from Vientiane to Vang Vieng take the bus.

Night spots in the south-east Asian town of Vang Vieng has suspended the sale of shots following the death of six tourists, including Simone White, 28, a British lawyer who died from suspected ...

VANG VIENG, Laos (AP): A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has killed at least six tourists and potentially ...

The head of security forces of Vang Vieng district Phut Buathong Boriban told reporters in Laos eight staff members, including management, from Nana Backpackers Hostel, where all of the six ...

He asked them if they or any of their friends had to seek hospital treatment for suspected poisoning while in Vang Vieng, of which 14 people answered yes. Of the 14, all but one respondent said ...

One of two Danish women who drank vodka believed to be laced with methanol in Laos was seen dripping with sweat and convulsing shortly before she died. Danish travellers Freja Vennervald Sorensen ...