In the days after backpackers in Laos began falling violently ill due to suspected methanol poisoning, travellers tried desperately to warn each other about the hostel at the centre of the scandal.

Tributes have poured in from friends and family of Simone, who have described feeling “devastated” by her death, Chronicle ...

Facing methanol poisoning in a place like Laos means hurdles to getting help, including accessing health care in time.

A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has killed at least six tourists and potentially injured scores of others ...

Vang Vieng is a town popular with backpackers, usually young people who travel on a budget, and has a reputation for cheap ...

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

Eight employees of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained for questioning after six foreign tourists died from ...

The Sunrise host commended the parents of two teenagers who died of suspected methanol poisoning as their bodies were ...

The arrest came after two Danish citizens, an American, a Briton, and two Australians died after drinking alcohol believed to ...

Laos police have arrested the owner, manager and six staff members of the Laotian hostel at the centre of a spate of fatal ...

The bodies of Melbourne teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles have been returned home following their deaths in Thailand.

Sydney families have been told to cut back on power usage amid blackout fears as the grid struggles in the heatwave. A police ...