Holly Bowles (right) and her best friend Bianca Jones (left), aged 19, had been enjoying a backpacking holiday with friends ...

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The parents of two Melbourne teenagers who died of methanol poisoning in Laos have urged Australians to boycott the country until it investigates their daughters’ deaths.

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, died in November last year after she fell ill from drinking free shots mixed with methanol whilst on a trip to the popular backpacking town of Vang Vieng ...

Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of a number of people taken to hospital after an incident in Vang Vieng, Laos Simone White, a British lawyer, who died from suspected methanol ...

The mum of a lawyer who died after drinking alcohol suspected to be laced with methanol while holidaying in Laos fears she ...

The U.S. State Department on Friday issued a health alert for citizens traveling in Laos, warning of “suspected methanol poisoning in Vang Vieng, possibly through the consumption of methanol ...

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A growing awareness of the risk of accidental methanol poisoning in Southeast Asia is apparently changing backpacker drinking ...

Officials have since concluded that the methanol in their system came from ... died in hospital after consuming tainted alcohol in Laos. In a warning shared on December 15, the Australian Travel ...