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 backpackers this week, including British solicitor Simone White, has raised the spectre of a Laotian ...

An illegal trade in alcohol and drugs, and lax policing, made last week’s tragic deaths in Vang Vieng inevitable Most ... surrounded by picturesque green mountains and the slow-flowing Nam ...

Teenage poet Li Ling hails from a mountainous town in southwest China Yunnan Province.Yet, her poem Dark Night has ...

An Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 jolted Tajikistan in the late hours of Wednesday, according to the National Centre of ...

The victims were an American, two Danes, two Australians, and a Brit. Australia's prime minister called the ordeal "every ...

Police in Laos have arrested eight people over the suspected mass methanol poisoning which killed six foreign tourists in ...

Vang Vieng - a tiny town on the Nam Song river surrounded by limestone mountains and paddy fields - is known for its scenery.

ITV News' Asia Correspondent Debi Edward has been to Vang Vieng, Laos, where local bars have reassured visitors and ...

The venue’s manager is assisting police in the capital Vientiane while foreigners in Vang Vieng are being told not to drink ...

For Melbourne friends Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, the Laotian party town of Vang Vieng was just another glorious stop on ...