Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the ...

The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in ...

Police in Laos have reportedly arrested the owner of a factory which reportedly supplied the poisoned alcohol that claimed ...

Australia has warned travelers against drinking spirits made by a Laos distiller, following the deaths of six foreign ...

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died, according to a family ...

The death of six foreigners in Vang Vieng threatens to undermine the government’s desperate attempts to revive its tourism ...

Vang Vieng, a popular backpacker destination in northern Laos, is at the center of an unfolding tragedy after several Western nations, including the United States and the United Kingdom ...

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after the incident in the popular ...

Vang Vieng, a town of around 25,000 people on the banks of the Nam Song River in central Laos, has for decades been a firm fixture on the so-called "Banana Pancake Trail" – the backpacker path ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A woman carries a baby and walks past the Nana Backpackers hostel ...

Young people travel from all corners of the globe to party in the small town nestled in the Laos countryside, but Vang Vieng is under a global spotlight, following a suspected mass methanol poisoning ...