An apparent methanol poisoning incident in Laos has left two people dead and two Australian women fighting for life in Thailand.

The two Australian teenagers who have been left fighting for their lives after reportedly consuming cocktails laced with methanol while travelling through Southeast Asia have been named.

The teens, from Melbourne’s bayside suburbs, had been staying at the Nana Backpacker Hostel in Vang Vieng, a popular tourist town about 130km north of Laos’ capital Vientiane. Ms Jones’ family told ...

Suffocating under a mountain of debt to China, communist Laos is struggling to tame rampant inflation, with food prices ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will pay an official visit to Vientiane, Lao PDR from November 20-22, to attend the ASEAN ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be visiting to Vientiane, Lao PDR from November 20-22, to attend the ASEAN Defence ...

A wild monkey broke into a room and bit a sleeping conservationist who rescued it from a village. The primate was caught in July raiding homes but escaped its cage and slipped into the radio control ...

We need to take every opportunity to engage with our international partners, given the increasingly unstable geo-political ...

Suffocating under a mountain of debt to China, communist Laos is struggling to tame rampant inflation, with food prices ...

During the 2024-25 dry season, the team aims to locate and recover the remains of 80 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who lost their lives in three provinces, while working closely with Lao ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Saturday, July 27, 2024, in ...

The Lao capital Vientiane is expecting an influx of tourists and a consumption boom during the annual That Luang festival ...