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

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

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

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

(Reuters) -A New Zealand citizen poisoned after drinking contaminated alcohol in a popular tourist town in Laos has returned ...

The Lao government is "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists from drinking alcohol contaminated with ...

The local governor visited the hostel in which some of the victims were staying, promising justice for those responsible.

Some fourteen people were reportedly sickened following a night out in Vang Vieng around Nov. 12, report CNBC's Monica ...

Six foreign tourists including Simone White, a 28-year-old British lawyer, have died in the last two weeks from suspected ...

Tourists from the U.S., Australia, Denmark and the U.K. have died. A tourism police officer said a "number of people" had ...

A hostel owner and manager have been arrested by police, and six tourists have now died in a tainted alcohol tragedy in Laos.