This week, an American man and two Danish women, aged 19 and 20, died in the same town due to methanol poisoning.

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 ...

The Laos government said Saturday it was "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng, with the toll ...

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

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 ...

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