An American man was among at least six tourists who were killed in a mass alcohol poisoning case in a popular tourist town in ...

Simone White, 28, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after the incident in the popular backpacking town of Vang ...

Details have been murky over the number of tourists affected and the possible source of the methanol-laced drinks.

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok ...

A second Australian woman who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, ...

The Laos government said Saturday it was "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng, with the toll from a suspected methanol poisoning incident now at six.

The victims were an American, two Danes, two Australians, and a Brit. Australia's prime minister called the ordeal "every ...

The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the mass poisoning that has killed at least six tourists, pledging ...

The deaths of five tourists after apparently drinking tainted drinks highlight the wider issue of bootleg alcohol.

Laotian police have detained the manager and owner of a hostel where two teenage Australian tourists stayed who were poisoned by tainted alcohol, one fatally, in a case that appears to have claimed ...

A second Australian teenager has died of suspected methanol poisoning, bringing to six the number of foreign tourists who ...

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