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

James Louis Hutson, 57, of the US, and Anne-Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20 and Freja Vennervald Sorensen, 21, both Danish, were ...

The U.S., Australia and U.K. have issued warnings for travelers in Vang Vieng after several tourists died in a suspected ...

The U.S. State Department issued a warning to travelers to be “alert to the potential risk of methanol poisoning.” ...

American and Australian tourists die in Laos alcohol poisoning incident, raising death toll to 4.

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

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

Two 19-year-old Australian tourists are being treated in Thailand for suspected severe alcohol poisoning after apparently ...

Laos, an opaque communist state that tightly ... communities and businesses about the dangers of methanol poisoning. Methanol is an alcohol chemical commonly used in industrial solvents, cleaning ...

An Australian teenager has died after drinking tainted alcohol in Vang Vieng, Laos, Australia’s prime minister said, and the ...

A string of deaths in Laos tied to tainted alcohol has ... The early stages of methanol poisoning can resemble typical alcohol intoxication. Its more severe symptoms — such as difficulty ...