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“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 […]
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 […]
Loading The Australian Federal Police arrested him, sparking a Philippine National Police (PNP) investigation that discovered the alleged puppet master of the international paedophile syndicate, which sold child abuse videos to foreigners for as little as $13. Authorities say that man was Teddy Jay Mojeca Mejia, a Filipino fugitive who’d been hiding in Dubai since […]