The family of Australian teenager Holly Bowles — who died after consuming contaminated drinks laced with methanol while on holiday in Laos — have revealed a new “heartbreaking” blow.

A travel blogger has expressed her shock after six backpackers were revealed to have been poisoned at a Laos hostel she had promoted on social media. Steph Dawson, who runs an Instagram travel ...

Police in Laos have detained the manager and seven staff members of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng following ... and drug-fuelled jungle parties for backpackers but has since re-branded as ...

(Image source: AP Photo/Anupam Nath) Following investigations into the suspected mass poisoning, eight people including the owner of Nana Backpackers Hostel have been detained by Laos authorities.

They were staying at Nana Backpackers Hostel and consumed drinks at the bar on Nov. 11 before heading out to another venue, staff at the hostel have claimed. The pair spent the next day sleeping ...

After backpackers in Laos began falling violently ill from suspected methanol poisoning, travellers tried desperately to warn each other about the hostel at the centre of the scandal. In a series ...

Cops have detained the ­manager and owner of the Nana backpackers hostel in Vang Vieng. He denies responsibility, along with a number of staff. The Laos government said it was “profoundly ...

A backpackers' hostel linked to the deaths of six tourists is set to reopen under a new name. Bethany Clarke and her friend Simone White, who later died, fell ill after drinking free vodka shots in ...