Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local authorities as they investigate the deaths of ...

Vang Vieng is a town popular with backpackers, usually young people who travel on a budget, and has a reputation for cheap ...

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

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

The arrest came after two Danish citizens, an American, a Briton, and two Australians died after drinking alcohol believed to ...

Facing methanol poisoning in a place like Laos means hurdles to getting help, including accessing health care in time.

Sunrise host Natalie Barr has broken down after the parents of Melbourne teens Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles returned home ...

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 ...

The other four victims have been named as Simone White, a 28-year-old lawyer from the UK; James Louis Hutson, a 57-year-old ...

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

In the days after backpackers in Laos began falling violently ill due to suspected methanol poisoning, travellers tried ...