Speeches
Keynote Address by AG Lucien Wong, S.C. at the 37th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime
3 September 2019
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In recent years, some 2,500 years after Pythagoras, writers such as Thomas Friedman, have advocated, that the world is flat – metaphorically. That due to globalisation and technological advancements, historical and geographical divisions are increasingly irrelevant in our world. This flat world, facilitates the money trail across countries. For Singapore, sitting at the crossroads of global trade and financial flows, we feel the “flatness” acutely.