A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has killed at least six tourists and potentially injured scores of others ...

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

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

Eight employees of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained for questioning after six foreign tourists died from ...

The Sunrise host commended the parents of two teenagers who died of suspected methanol poisoning as their bodies were ...

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

Laos police have arrested the owner, manager and six staff members of the Laotian hostel at the centre of a spate of fatal ...

A week ago their parents had rushed to the hospital bedsides of their ailing daughters in Thailand, after they fell violently ...

A convicted murderer who stabbed a mother to death in front of her young son is being allowed out of jail to undergo IVF treatment.

On the 24th of November a radio news story about the methanol poisoning of Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones incorrectly stated they had died from methadone poisoning.

Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local authorities as they investigate the deaths of six foreign tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, according to ...

Senator Fatima Payman has accused Pauline Hanson of being racist after her eligibility to sit in parliament was repeatedly ...