Vang Vieng is a town popular with backpackers, usually young people who travel on a budget, and has a reputation for cheap ...

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

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

Officials arrested eight hostel workers in Laos on Monday for allegedly poisoning travelers with methanol, according to ...

Facing methanol poisoning in a place like Laos means hurdles to getting help, including accessing health care in time.

Authorities have named the American tourist who was one of five people to die of suspected methanol poisoning at a hostel in ...

Eight employees of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained for questioning after six foreign tourists died from ...

Laos police have arrested the owner, manager and six staff members of the Laotian hostel at the centre of a spate of fatal ...

BANGKOK: Police in Laos have detained the manager and seven staff of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following the deaths ...

The arrest came after two Danish citizens, an American, a Briton, and two Australians died after drinking alcohol believed to ...

A third Australian has fallen ill after consuming methanol-laced alcohol in Laos. So far, six people have died and eight ...

The Sunrise host commended the parents of two teenagers who died of suspected methanol poisoning as their bodies were ...