Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were among six people who died after drinking tainted alcohol in the tourist town of Vang Vieng ...

The parents of two Melbourne women who died due to methanol poisoning in Laos late last year have called for travellers to boycott the country until it investigates the deaths properly.

Holly, 19, died in Thailand a day after the death of her best friend, Bianca, also 19, after drinking tainted alcohol in the ...

The parents of two Melbourne teenagers who died of methanol poisoning in Laos have urged Australians to boycott the country until it investigates their daughters’ deaths.

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Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after an incident in Vang Vieng, Laos Simone White, a British lawyer, who died from suspected methanol ...

A growing awareness of the risk of accidental methanol poisoning in Southeast Asia is apparently changing backpacker drinking ...

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after an incident in Vang Vieng, Laos ...

The parents of one of the young women who died after drinking tainted alcohol in the south-east Asian nation of Laos have ...

A young Aussie mum who woke up with a black eye and no memory has shared an urgent warning after a spontaneous birthday trip turned into a life-threatening ordeal.