Simone White's mother has told ITV News about the moment she had to switch off her daughter's life support, after she drank ...

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 ...

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, died in November last year after she fell ill from drinking free shots mixed with methanol whilst on a trip to the popular backpacking town of Vang Vieng ...

A growing awareness of the risk of accidental methanol poisoning in Southeast Asia is apparently changing backpacker drinking ...

"The Laos government sent their condolences via ... Several people were detained from the Nana Backpacker Hostel but have since been released, according to 60 Minutes Australia.

Simone White's mother has told ITV News about the moment she had to switch off her daughter's life support, after she drank ...

Simone White, 28, was one of six tourists who tragically died following a mass methanol poisoning at a hostel bar in Vang Vieng, Laos, last November. Speaking to 60 Minutes, a popular Australian ...

The Southeast Asian country has lagged behind Vietnam and Thailand when it comes to tourism. The government hopes new hotels, ...

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 ...

Laos authorities have linked the incident to the illicit production of alcohol containing methanol and initially detained several hostel workers for questioning. But information out of the one ...

The fearing mother then flew out to Laos to be by her bedside and hope that ... Eight employees at Nana Backpackers Hostel were arrested over the poisoning, but all were released from custody.

The mum of a British lawyer who tragically died in Laos after drinking methanol-laced ... had been drinking with her friends at the Nana Backpackers Hostel when she started to feel unwell.