Young people travel from all corners of the globe to party in the small town nestled in the Laos countryside, but Vang Vieng ...

Vang Vieng, a town of around 25,000 people on the banks of the Nam Song River in central Laos, has for decades been a firm fixture on the so-called "Banana Pancake Trail" – the backpacker path ...

Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the headlines for all the wrong reasons once again. "Just make sure you push ...

The deaths of six backpackers this week, including British solicitor Simone White, has raised the spectre of a Laotian ...

We’ve drunk buckets before, but we are not going to take the risk again, and a lot of people ... built Laos high-speed rail ...

Methanol is sometimes added to mixed drinks at disreputable bars as a cheaper alternative to ethanol, but can cause severe ...

A Laos party town has stopped serving ... with a Norwegian who has lived in Vang Vieng since 2004 saying: "People here don’t drink a lot, but they use lots of drugs. All kinds of drugs.

The death of six foreigners in Vang Vieng threatens to undermine the government’s desperate attempts to revive its tourism ...

An illegal trade in alcohol and drugs, and lax policing, made last week’s tragic deaths in Vang Vieng inevitable Most people who want to get from Vientiane to Vang Vieng take the bus. The small ...

Bianca Jones, 19, was one of six foreign tourists who died in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Vang Vieng, a popular backpacker destination in northern Laos. The deaths of two Australian ...

Doctors have revealed a common treatment to slow the effects of methanol poisoning. It comes after six people died following ...