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14 days ago
South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan will participate in the spin-off competition.
40 days ago
Coroner 'perplexed' as Foreign Office fail to send representative to inquest of lawyer who died 'after being served drinks laced with methanol' in Laos ⊖
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Simone White, from Orpington in Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after staying in the popular backpacking town of Vang Vieng.
59 days ago
Brother of British tourist, 28, who died in mass ethanol poisoning in Laos condemns £135 fines for offenders as 'an absolute joke' ⊖⊖
The brother of Simone White, a British tourist who died in a mass ethanol poisoning in Laos has lambasted £135 fines being issued to offenders as 'an absolute joke'.
60 days ago
Brother of Laos methanol victim says £135 fines 'an absolute joke' ⊖
Ten people linked to six deaths at a hostel in Laos are given suspended sentences and fines.
61 days ago
Australia sends special envoy to Laos to shadow investigation of backpackers’ methanol poisoning deaths ⊖⊖
Holly Morton-Bowles and Bianca Jones were travelling in Laos in late 2024 when they were fatally poisoned with methanol at Nana Backpackers Hostel in Vang Vieng
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63 days ago
Parents of Melbourne methanol-poisoning victims ‘shocked’ by $185 fines handed to Laos hostel staff ⊖⊖
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Fathers of Bianca Jones and Holly Morton-Bowles, both 19, who died after a night out at the Nana backpackers hostel in 2024, say court decision is ‘absolute injustice’
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3 months ago
Trump's travel ban on seven new countries comes into effect as 2026 begins ⊖
Immigrants and nonimmigrants from Burkina Faso, Laos, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Syria will all be denied entry into the US as part of new Border Patrol Guidance.
British tourists among more than 100 rescued as ferry capsizes in Laos ⊕
The boat was carrying around 120 passengers when it struck a rock on its way to the historic city of Luang Prabang on Thursday afternoon.
4 months ago
Onlookers review – snapshots of a south-east Asian country shaped by tourism ⊕
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Through static compositions and observational detail, the documentary explores how Laos’s visitors and residents inhabit the same spaces in very different ways
Shot in Laos, Kimi Takesue’s idiosyncrat…
Brain damage, blindness and death: the global trail of trauma left by methanol-laced alcohol ○
Methanol, a cheap relative of ethanol, is entering the supply chain, causing thousands of deaths around the world
For Bethany Clarke, poison tasted like nothing. There was no bitter aftertaste, no ast…