The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed the New Zealander who is believed to have been poisoned with methanol in Laos has returned home. Two Australian teenagers, a British national, ...

Text messages from two Danish backpackers who died in a mass poisoning in Laos suggest the pair had been vomiting blood for ...

A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under the spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has ...

Six people are so far dead, with the cause suspected as methanol-tainted drinks in the town of Vang Vieng, Laos.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed its condolences after a second Australian teen transferred from Laos to be treated for methanol poisoning after drinking tainted liquor, died on Sunday.

Melbourne teenagers Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones, both aged 19, had been enjoying the trip of their young lives there when ...

It is believed their alcoholic drinks may have contained methanol, an industrial chemical often used in bootleg alcohol. For ...

The deaths of six backpackers this week, including British solicitor Simone White, has raised the spectre of a Laotian ...

James Louis Hutson, 57, is one of the three latest people confirmed to have died in Laos following what is suspected - but ...

The Laos government has said it is “profoundly saddened” and is investigating the deaths of six people from suspected methanol ...

Laos party-goers are on edge and sticking to beer after six tourists were killed by 'methanol poisoning', with backpackers in ...

British lawyer Simone White, 28, from Orpington in Kent died after drinking free shots allegedly laced with deadly methanol.