Vang Vieng, a popular backpacker destination ... Tourism is a key source of revenue for Laos, a landlocked nation of about 7 million people that is one of the poorest countries in Southeast ...

Out on the river there is little sign that the poisonings are stopping people coming to Vang Vieng. Late November is peak ...

Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20, Freja Vennervald Sorensen, 21, American James Louis Hutson, 57, and Australians Bianca Jones and ...

Two Danish backpackers who died in a mass poisoning in Laos messaged a friend to say they had been vomiting blood for hours ...

Southeast Asia has the "highest rates of methanol poisoning globally", said Al Jazeera, and this is often blamed on "economic ...

VANG VIENG, Laos (AP) — 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 ...

An Australian teenager has died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos. The 19-year-old was visiting Vang Vieng, a town ...

Vang Vieng, Laos — A second Australian teenager who ... in knowing that Holly brought so much joy and happiness to so many people." An officer at Vang Vieng's Tourism Police office, who refused ...

The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in ...

Another 19-year-old remains in critical condition as authorities say drinks in the backpacker town of Vang Vieng, Laos, were spiked with methanol Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.