Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local authorities as they investigate the deaths of ...

An Australian teenager has become the sixth foreign tourist to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos, as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The family of a “talented” British lawyer who is among six tourists to have died in Laos from suspected alcohol poisoning have ...

At least six tourists who traveled to Laos have died in recent days, prompting international alarm about the dangers of consuming alcoholic drinks that contain methanol. By Michael Levenson Officials ...

The empty bar of Nana Backpackers hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos on Nov. 22. Anupam Nath / AP A string of deaths in Laos tied to tainted alcohol has raised alarm around the world and renewed concerns ...

BANGKOK — Two Australian teenagers and a British woman died from suspected methanol poisoning after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos. An American man and two Danes also died, though their exact causes ...

The father of an Australian teenager who died from methanol poisoning while on a backpacking holiday has issued a plea to the Laos government to fully investigate his daughter’s death and ensure such ...

The family of a “talented” British lawyer who is among six tourists to have died in Laos from suspected alcohol poisoning have paid tribute. Simone White, 28, from Orpington, was confirmed dead on ...

Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers (CNN) — Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local ...

A string of deaths in Laos tied to tainted alcohol has raised alarm around the world and renewed concerns about methanol in alcoholic drinks. Last week, six tourists died in Laos from a suspected ...