For his part, the Lao leader asked Party General Secretary Lam to convey his regards to high-ranking leaders of the CPV while ...

Laos is a one-party Communist state, and strict controls on the media meant the deaths often went unreported. But the authorities finally launched a crackdown in 2011, after 27 tourists were said ...

Police in Laos have arrested eight people over the suspected mass methanol poisoning which killed six foreign tourists in ...

An American man was among at least six tourists who were killed in a mass alcohol poisoning case in a popular tourist town in ...

Vang Vieng has been a fixture on the Southeast Asia backpacker trail since Laos’ secretive communist rulers opened ... drinking tainted alcohol in Laos party town Six tourists die after drinking ...

The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the mass poisoning that has killed at least six tourists, ...

The AP quickly deployed an all-formats team that dominated the story by providing voices and color from Vang Vieng, Laos, ...

Laos is a one-party communist state with no organized opposition and the government keeps a tight lid on information. In this case, officials have released almost no details. The police have said ...

Al Jazeera looks back at the most devastating period in Laos’s history, when the US waged a years-long ‘Secret War’.