Southeast Asia has the "highest rates of methanol poisoning globally", said Al Jazeera, and this is often blamed on "economic pressures and weak regulations". Laos, despite its increasing ...

Bethany Clarke has issued an urgent warning after her best friend, Simone White, tragically passed away after they both drank ...

Now, along with Simone’s mother, Sue White, she is campaigning for greater awareness of the risks of methanol poisoning – and for the Foreign Office to warn against travel to Laos.

Bethany Clarke, 27, and her best friend Simone White, 28, met in Laos, Southeast Asia, for the trip of a lifetime, but after consuming vodka shots that are thought to have been tainted with methanol, ...

Denmark’s foreign ministry said in a statement Thursday that two of its citizens had died in Laos. Citing confidentiality, it would not comment when asked whether they died of methanol poisoning.

The Foreign Office includes information about the risks from methanol poisoning in travel advice pages for five South East Asian nations – Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia – as ...

There are new warnings of bootleg booze served at holiday destinations, a group of MPs says travel warnings from the foreign office are inadequate. | ITV National News ...

Nana Backpackers Hostel in Vang Vieng, Laos, at the center of the death of six backpackers by poisoning is due to reopen according to BBC.

Laos tourists have spoken of their fears after six people have died from suspected alcohol poisoning in the tourist town of Vang Vieng. Holly Bowles, 19, died more than a week after falling ill at ...

The parents of two Australian teenagers who were killed by suspected methanol poisoning in Laos are speaking out. Melbourne teenagers Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones, both 19, were among six ...

"The Laos government sent their condolences via the federal police, and that, to us, means nothing, nothing at all," he said. "That's just not good enough." ...

There are new warnings of bootleg booze served at holiday destinations, a group of MPs says travel warnings from the foreign ...