Officials arrested eight hostel workers in Laos on Monday for allegedly poisoning travelers with methanol, according to ...

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

A New Zealander who had fallen ill from suspected methanol poisoning in Laos has now returned home, authorities have ...

The father of an Australian teenager who died from suspected methanol poisoning while on a backpacking holiday has issued a ...

Those detained by police include the management and staff at Nana’s Backpackers Hostel, where two Australian teenagers had been staying on their fateful trip.

The Lao government is "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists from drinking alcohol contaminated with ...

Two Danes, two Australians, a Briton and an American died from methanol poisoning after visiting Vang Vieng, an idyllic town ...

The local governor visited the hostel in which some of the victims were staying, promising justice for those responsible.

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

Tourists from the U.S., Australia, Denmark and the U.K. have died. A tourism police officer said a "number of people" had ...

A hostel owner and manager have been arrested by police, and six tourists have now died in a tainted alcohol tragedy in Laos.