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Over the past few weeks, Anne-Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20, and Freja Vennervald Sorensen, 21, had been on a trip of a lifetime backpacking across South East Asia. Photos posted online show the two young Danish women sightseeing in Cambodia and motorcycling around Vietnam as they made new friends and partied into the night. But their […]
“Young men and women should be able to travel, create their own life experiences and be safe. We’ll forever miss our beautiful girl and hope her loss of life has not been in vain.” The government of Laos publicly acknowledged the tragedy for the first time on Saturday, saying it was “profoundly saddened”. Tourists at […]
“Young men and women should be able to travel, create their own life experiences and be safe. We’ll forever miss our beautiful girl and hope her loss of life has not been in vain.” The government of Laos publicly acknowledged the tragedy for the first time on Saturday, saying it was “profoundly saddened”. Tourists at […]
The death toll now includes Bowles, Jones, two young Danish women, an American man and 28-year-old British woman Simone White. The hostel denies that its drinks made the guests sick. To make the point earlier this week, the manager drank vodka from one of the bottles himself. Loading A Nana worker, one of few remaining […]
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Almeno quattro turisti stranieri sono morti a Vang Vieng, una città del Laos molto frequentata dai viaggiatori con lo zaino in spalla, dopo aver bevuto dell’alcol contaminato con il metanolo. Le vittime sono due danesi, un’australiana e uno statunitense, come hanno confermato i rispettivi governi, che non hanno però fornito dettagli sulle cause della morte. […]
Video: US citizen becomes third person to die in Laos US citizen becomes third person to die in Laos We’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. Dismiss Skip to sections navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer A US citizen has become the third person to die in […]
More than a week after people became sick, a group of officials that included a police chief went to the hostel on Wednesday and confiscated bottles for testing in Vientiane. Nana Backpacker Hostel manager Duong Duc Toan with a bottle of vodka.Credit: AP It was unknown whether investigators from the other visit, which happened shortly […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has handed Laos a blunt assessment of its finances as inflation plateaus at 25 percent with its currency devaluing in kind amid public debt levels that require Chinese relief – and an asset sale that might go wrong. In a recent report, the IMF found exchange rate depreciation continues and […]
Mapped: The World’s Top 20 Shortest Countries This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. This graphic ranks the 20 shortest countries in the world, by average height. Data comes from NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, […]