Four people died — including a teenager — and another 19-year-old remains in critical condition as authorities say drinks in the popular backpacker town of Vang Vieng, Laos, were spiked with ...

Laos has tried to rebrand Vang Vieng as less of a party destination. In 2012, the government closed down many of the cheap bars that catered to the backpacker crowd and pivoted toward becoming ...

Australia said "several foreign nationals" had also been victims of methanol poisoning. The U.S. State Department confirmed that an American had also died in Vang Vieng.

“We had arranged to meet in Laos on Thursday [November 14] – the girls had already been in Vang Vieng for a few days, but I was still in a different country,” he wrote.

An officer at Vang Vieng’s Tourism Police office told The Associated Press on Friday that a “number of people” had been detained in the case but that no charges have been filed.

Vang Vieng’s drug scene nothing like it used to be, and over the next decade, it looks set to continue shedding its former murky reputation. No, the party’s not quite over yet.

A dark cloud now looms over the backpacking hotspot of Vang Vieng after Australian teenagers Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones and British lawyer Simone White died from suspected alcohol poisoning .

Vang Vieng: What to know about the Laos backpacker town at center of suspected methanol poisonings. Lilit Marcus. Fri, November 22, 2024 at 7:31 PM UTC. 3 min read.

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Laos has tried to rebrand Vang Vieng as less of a party destination. In 2012, the government closed down many of the cheap bars that catered to the backpacker crowd and pivoted toward becoming ...