Vang Vieng: What to know about the Laos backpacker town at center of suspected methanol poisonings
The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in Southeast Asia that has worked hard in recent years to shed its reputation for excess.
By far the largest groups are from neighbouring Thailand and China, the latter shuttling south on the newly finished ...
Laos party-goers are on edge and sticking to beer after six tourists were killed by 'methanol poisoning', with backpackers in ...
The deaths of six backpackers this week, including British solicitor Simone White, has raised the spectre of a Laotian ...
A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died, according to a family ...
Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after the incident in the popular ...
They have stopped serving shots in the backpacker bars of Vang Vieng. The night spots of this south-east Asian tourist town ...
The victims were an American, two Danes, two Australians, and a Brit. Australia's prime minister called the ordeal "every ...
The Lao government is "profoundly saddened" by the deaths of foreign tourists from drinking alcohol contaminated with ...
I still remember the first time I saw Vang Vieng, in Laos. It was many years ago, before the Chinese began pouring money in ...
The U.S. State Department confirmed the death of an American tourist in Vang Vieng, Laos, following the consumption of ...
Death of second Australian teenager comes as the owner of Nana Backpackers Hostel in Vang Vieng is detained by Laotian police ...
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