Simone White, 28, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after the incident in the popular backpacking town of Vang ...

An American man was among at least six tourists who were killed in a mass alcohol poisoning case in a popular tourist town in ...

Details have been murky over the number of tourists affected and the possible source of the methanol-laced drinks.

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, is one of six people who died in the tragedy in the popular backpacking town of Vang ...

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok ...

A second Australian woman who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, ...

The Laos government said Saturday it was "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng, with the toll from a suspected methanol poisoning incident now at six.

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

Holly Bowles, 19, had been in critical condition on life support following the poisoning in Laos more than a week ago.

The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the mass poisoning that has killed at least six tourists, pledging ...

The deaths of five tourists after apparently drinking tainted drinks highlight the wider issue of bootleg alcohol.

Laotian police have detained the manager and owner of a hostel where two teenage Australian tourists stayed who were poisoned by tainted alcohol, one fatally, in a case that appears to have claimed ...