{"id":67887,"date":"2024-11-23T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/23\/six-people-are-dead-after-a-suspected-mass-methanol-poisoning-at-a-backpacker-party-town-what-went-wrong-in-laos"},"modified":"2024-11-23T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:00:20","slug":"six-people-are-dead-after-a-suspected-mass-methanol-poisoning-at-a-backpacker-party-town-what-went-wrong-in-laos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67887","title":{"rendered":"Six people are dead after a suspected mass methanol poisoning at a backpacker party town. What went wrong in Laos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As authorities detain a hostel owner in Vang Vieng, expert says the recent deaths are just the \u2018tip of the iceberg\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Vang Vieng is an unlikely party hub.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by striking limestone mountains and caves in central Laos, it morphed from a small farming town to a hedonistic party hub in the early 2000s. Enticed by boozy tubing experiences, throngs of twentysomething backpackers cemented its spot on south-east Asia\u2019s famed backpacker trail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/23\/six-people-are-dead-after-a-suspected-mass-methanol-poisoning-at-a-backpacker-party-town-what-went-wrong-in-laos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As authorities detain a hostel owner in Vang Vieng, expert says the recent deaths are just the \u2018tip of the iceberg\u2019Vang Vieng is an unlikely party hub.Surrounded by striking limestone mountains and caves in central Laos, it morphed from a small farming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[969,41,43,346,727,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-health","category-laos","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67888,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67887\/revisions\/67888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}