The manager and seven staff of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained after six tourists died from suspected methanol poisoning. Local media said that police brought in the 34-year-old ...

Eight people have been arrested in Laos following the deaths of six tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, including a British lawyer, local media has reported. The head of security forces ...

The parents of two Melbourne teenagers who died of methanol poisoning in Laos have urged Australians to boycott the country until it investigates their daughters’ deaths.

Months after the deaths of Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones, their families say they are furious at the lack of information from Lao authorities and want travellers to boycott the country until a proper ...

We don’t know, but we’ve got no answers at all.” Bethany, who had joined Simone on the trip to Laos, said she watched the hostel bartender pour shots from a “typical vodka bottle” and ...

Laos, despite its increasing popularity with ... The six victims had all stayed at or visited Vang Vieng's Nana Backpackers Hostel, said the BBC. The American was "found dead in his bedroom ...

That fatal incident came just weeks after six tourists died from methanol poisoning in Laos after drinking contaminated free shots at a backpackers’ hostel. On Sunday, British survivor Bethany ...

Laos is a one-party communist state with no organized ... They failed to check out from the Nana Backpacker Hostel as planned and were found sick in their room and then taken to Thailand for ...

Bethany, who was with Simone in Laos, described how on the night she watched the hostel bartender pour the shots from a “typical vodka bottle” and then ordered Sprite to mix them with ...

That fatal incident came just weeks after six tourists died from methanol poisoning in Laos after drinking contaminated free shots at a backpackers’ hostel. On Sunday, British survivor Bethany ...