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 how she had a lucky escape. The tourist, who wished to remain anonymous, ...

I still remember the first time I saw Vang Vieng, in Laos. It was many years ago, before the Chinese began pouring money in ...

Laotian authorities have been working to rid the town of its deadly reputation. Clearly, they haven’t worked hard enough.

An Australian teenager has become the sixth foreign tourist to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos, as a ...

Holly Bowles, 19, is one of six tourists who have died in Laos from what is believed to be methanol poisoning. She passed ...

Six foreign backpackers including Simone White, a British lawyer, have died after drinking contaminated alcohol in Van Vieng ...

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 ...

And off they went.” They ended up on 12 November in the riverside town of Vang Vieng in central Laos. The two checked into ...