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 ...

Terrified travellers attempted to warn others about suspected methanol being served in drinks at a hostel now being ...

Eight employees of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained for questioning after six foreign tourists died from ...

The bodies of two Melbourne teenagers who died in Laos after suspected methanol poisoning have been returned home. Bianca ...

Tributes have poured in from friends and family of Simone, who have described feeling “devastated” by her death, Chronicle ...

Reviews warning travellers away from a hostel at the centre of a deadly string of methanol poisonings in Laos were seemingly ...

VIENTIANE: More women and children in Laos will be able to gain to the justice system through an expanded partnership between ...

New details are emerging about how backpackers tried to warn each other online about the hostel at the centre of the Laos methanol scandal. Two Australians are among the six dead.

As some of their number succumbed to methanol poisoning, other guests at the Laotian hostel at the centre of the probe tried ...

VIENTIANE: Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone has reaffirmed Laos’ commitment to ending violence against women and girls, ...