Facebook’s Libra Finds a Friend In Southeast Asia

Facebook’s abortive cryptocurrency project Libra may have hit the skids in the United States, but it may have friended a powerful ally in Asia.

The road to Vang Vieng is paved in hash. (Image by zigang liu from Pixabay)

The first thing that hit James Forester about Vang Vieng, a picturesque town in Laos, north of the capital Vientiane, wasn’t the idyllic…