A third Australian has been hospitalised in the suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos, Thailand. Eight people have been arrested following six related deaths.

Officials arrested eight hostel workers in Laos on Monday for allegedly poisoning travelers with methanol, according to reports from the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Tourists reported illnesses after consuming alcohol in the town of Vang Vieng,

Six tourists including British lawyer Simon White, from Kent, tragically died following a mass poisoning at a hostel in Thailand - new details have sparked further questions about the parties at fault

The father of Bianca Jones, a 19-year-old Australian who was one of six tourists killed in a methanol poisoning incident in Laos, has urged authorities to conduct a full investigation into the tragedy,

An Australian teenager has become the sixth foreign tourist to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos, as a growing list of countries warned of the potentially fatal consequences of drinking tainted alcohol in the Southeast Asian country.

Southeast Asia has the "highest rates of methanol poisoning globally", said Al Jazeera, and this is often blamed on "economic pressures and weak regulations". Laos, despite its increasing popularity with backpackers, is one of the poorest nations in the region.

The problem with methanol poisoning is that it looks very much like alcohol poisoning. And delays in treatment can be fatal.

Laos police have detained eight men over a suspected methanol poisoning that killed six backpackers, including two Australians. Laos police told the ABC the detained men were staff and management of the Nana Backpackers hostel, where Australian teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles were staying when they fell ill.

Police in Laos have arrested eight people over the suspected mass methanol poisoning which killed six foreign tourists in backpacking hotspot Vang Vieng. The Laos government promised justice after two Danish,