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

Staff from a backpacker hostel have been detained after six tourists died from suspected methanol poisoning after a night out ...

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

Workers at a backpackers hostel in Laos have been arrested after six tourists, including a British woman, died from suspected ...

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

Laotian police have detained the manager and owner of a hostel where two teenage Australian tourists stayed who were poisoned ...

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

On Friday (November 22), 19-year-old Australian Holly Bowles passed away in Bangkok, Thailand after having been on holiday in ...

Vang Vieng - a tiny town on the Nam Song river surrounded by limestone mountains and paddy fields - is known for its scenery. It is also known as a party town - a reputation Laos officials have been ...

A second Australian teenager has died of suspected methanol poisoning, bringing to six the number of foreign tourists who ...

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