Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the ...
Eight employees of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained for questioning after six foreign tourists died from ...
A former student at a Yorkshire university said she feels like she has ‘escaped death’ after narrowly missing out on a stay ...
The father of an Australian teenager who died from suspected methanol poisoning while on a backpacking holiday has issued a ...
A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died, according to a family ...
Six foreign tourists including Simone White, a 28-year-old British lawyer, have died in the last two weeks from suspected ...
Out on the river there is little sign that the poisonings are stopping people coming to Vang Vieng. Late November is peak ...