{"id":67993,"date":"2024-11-29T16:09:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T07:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/29\/laos-bans-sale-and-consumption-of-vodka-and-tiger-whisky-following-suspected-mass-methanol-poisoning-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T07:09:36","slug":"laos-bans-sale-and-consumption-of-vodka-and-whisky-brand-following-suspected-mass-methanol-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67993","title":{"rendered":"Laos bans sale and consumption of vodka and whisky brand following suspected mass methanol poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ban comes after two Australian teenagers, two Danish citizens, an American and a Briton became ill, and later died, after drinking in Vang Vieng<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lao authorities have banned the sale and consumption of a brand of whisky and vodka after the death of six tourists from a suspected mass methanol poisoning this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartraveller.gov.au\/destinations\/asia\/laos\">According to Smartraveller<\/a>, the Australian government\u2019s travel advice website, the drinks Tiger vodka and Tiger whisky have been prohibited by the Laos government due to \u201cconcerns about these products being a health risk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/29\/laos-bans-sale-and-consumption-of-vodka-and-tiger-whisky-following-suspected-mass-methanol-poisoning-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ban comes after two Australian teenagers, two Danish citizens, an American and a Briton became ill, and later died, after drinking in Vang ViengGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLao authorities have banned the sale and consumpt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"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":[41,43,727,527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-laos","category-travel"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67993","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\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68009,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67993\/revisions\/68009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}