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 ...

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

The other four victims have been named as Simone White, a 28-year-old lawyer from the UK; James Louis Hutson, a 57-year-old ...

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

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

A New Zealander who had fallen ill from suspected methanol poisoning in Laos has now returned home, authorities have ...

Officials arrested eight hostel workers in Laos on Monday for allegedly poisoning travelers with methanol, according to ...

Police in Laos have detained eight members of staff at a backpacker hostel following the deaths of six tourists from ...

James Louis Hutson, 57, of the US, and Anne-Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20 and Freja Vennervald Sorensen, 21, both Danish, were ...

At least six tourists who traveled to Laos have died in recent days, prompting international alarm about the dangers of ...

The father of an Australian teenager who died from suspected methanol poisoning while on a backpacking holiday has issued a ...