Employees of a Laotian hostel were detained after an American tourist and five others died from suspected methanol poisoning ...
Two days before they were due to vacate the room, the women had joined over 100 other guests for free shots of Lao vodka offered by the hostel as a gesture of hospitality, the hostel manager said.
A sixth person has died after drinking fake alcohol shots suspected of being laced with poisonous methanol during a backpacking holiday in Laos. Nineteen-year-old Australian Holly Bowles was confirmed ...
(AP Photo/Anupam Nath) VANG VIENG, Laos — A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted ...