Vang Vieng: What to know about the Laos backpacker town at center of suspected methanol poisonings
The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in Southeast Asia that has worked hard in recent years to shed its reputation for excess.
Laotian authorities have been working to rid the town of its deadly reputation. Clearly, they haven’t worked hard enough.
I still remember the first time I saw Vang Vieng, in Laos. It was many years ago, before the Chinese began pouring money in ...
Vang Vieng in Laos has had a reputation for dangerous partying for over a decade and attempts to reform the town's tourist ...
Six foreign backpackers including Simone White, a British lawyer, have died after drinking contaminated alcohol in Van Vieng ...
A British backpacker has revealed she was ‘blinded’ after drinking ‘free vodka’ shots at hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos amid ...
A British backpacker who was given ‘free vodka’ at the Laos hostel at the centre of a suspected mass methanol poisoning told ...
A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has ...
The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the case and promised to bring the perpetrators to justice, as ...
Backpackers at the Nakee Bar on the banks of the Nam Song River in Vang Vieng, Laos. Picture: Supplied Hundreds of ...
A second Australian tourist has died after drinking alcohol that was laced with methanol in Vang Vieng, Laos. That brings the total number of deaths to six, NOS reports. A Dutch woman who became ill ...
A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died, according to a family ...
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