Thailand

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war, triggered the worst rail accident in history and shattered the lives of millions. Twenty years on, those who escaped certain death share their stories.

Thai media reports say the boy was found at the steps of a shop in Pattaya where he had collapsed with a knife blade in his back.

Friends and family — some wearing pink and others with blue and yellow ribbons in their hair — have gathered to farewell Holly Morton-Bowles, who died after consuming methanol-laced drinks in Laos.

A plant used in south-east Asian traditional medicine is becoming popular in the United States and now there are growing calls for it the be legalised in Australia. 

Kratom has been used for centuries as a traditional medicine in South-East Asia, but as its popularity has soared in the United States, so too has the controversy around it. 

Melbourne teen Bianca Jones has been farewelled by family and friends at a funeral at her old school, after her death from methanol poisoning during a holiday in Asia.

Thai-born Australian ceramic artist Vipoo Srivilasa transforms strangers' broken treasures in a new exhibition set to tour nationally.

After the deaths of six young backpackers, including two Australians, due to methanol poisoning in Laos, a distiller explains how untrained or unscrupulous brewers can easily create a deadly concoction.

More than 30 people have been killed in the flooding which was caused by heavy rains in the region in the past week, with communities facing a significant rebuild also preparing for more rain this weekend.

The death toll from the flooding has risen to 19, with officials saying further rain could bring the worst flooding in a decade.

At least 19 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands affected in Malaysia and Thailand as officials brace for the worst flood in a decade.

The government of Laos breaks its silence over the deaths of six tourists from methanol poisoning, saying it is "profoundly saddened".

Australian methanol poisoning survivors have shared their experiences of consuming tainted alcohol after two teenagers fell ill in Laos and died this week.

The owner of a backpackers hostel where two young Australians were staying before they fell violently ill from methanol poisoning has been detained by police for questioning in Laos.

A woman dubbed "Am Cyanide" by Thai media has faced her first of 14 murder trials involving alleged cyanide poisonings.

Two Danish nationals in their 20s have died and two Melbourne teenagers, Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones, are on life support in Thai hospitals after they drank alcohol believed to have been tainted with methanol.

It's believed methanol was in the cocktails that poisoned two 19-year-old girls from Melbourne in Laos.

Two 19-year-old girls are fighting for their lives in Thai hospitals after consuming cocktails believed to have contained methanol.

The two teenage girls from Melbourne are reportedly fighting for their lives in Thai hospitals after drinking suspected tainted cocktails in Laos.

Large plumes of smoke billow from the woods in Gellibrand as a bushfire burns out of control in Victoria's Otway Ranges.