Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the ...

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

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

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

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

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

The father of an Australian teenager who died from suspected methanol poisoning while on a backpacking holiday has issued a ...

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

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

Six foreign tourists including Simone White, a 28-year-old British lawyer, have died in the last two weeks from suspected ...

The deaths of six tourists sent shock waves through the backpacker scene in Vang Vieng.

Those detained include management and staff at Nana Backpackers Hostel, where two Australian teenagers stayed before dying ...