Tributes have poured in from friends and family of Simone, who have described feeling “devastated” by her death, Chronicle ...

Eight employees of the Nana Backpackers Hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos, have been detained by local authorities in connection ...

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

A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has killed at least six tourists and potentially injured scores of others ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The bodies of Melbourne teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles have been returned home following their deaths in Thailand.