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Education Minister Jason Clare says it's "disappointing" that Laos hasn't accepted the help of Australian investigators. Follow live.

Laos’s hesitancy to take up Australia’s offer to help investigate the deaths of teens Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones is ...

A British woman who died after collapsing at a hostel in Sri Lanka may have been poisoned by noxious pesticides, police say.

The families of Australian teens Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles have broken their silence after it was revealed Laos authorities investigating their daughters’ deaths are yet to accept Australia’s help ...

The federal government will continue to press Laos to fully investigate the methanol poisoning deaths of Melbourne friends Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, after revelations the southeast Asian nation ...

More bad news has been delivered to the grieving family of two girls who died from suspected methanol poisoning in Laos.

Laos has failed to accept "consistent" offers by Australian Federal Police to assist the investigation into the methanol ...

An investigation by Laos into the deaths of two Melbourne teens by methanol poisoning has not taken up an offer of help from ...