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

A New Zealand citizen poisoned after drinking contaminated alcohol in a popular tourist town in Laos has returned home, ...

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

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

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

The government of Laos, in Southeast Asia, is vowing to track the source of a suspected "mass alcohol poisoning" in a resort town popular with backpackers. At least six tourists are dead after ...

The U.S., Australia and U.K. have issued warnings for travelers in Vang Vieng after several tourists died in a suspected ...