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World Cities Day falls tomorrow Act Local to Go Global – By PRAMOD DE SILVA Source : sundayobserver Sri Lanka could potentially become another Singapore, given its strategic location, investment opportunities, skilled workforce and adequate infrastructure facilities The beautiful Sinhala song “Gammanen Mey Nagareta” by Athula Adikari and Samitha Mudunkotuwa sums up the differences between the “Sidadiya” (after Ciudad, the Spanish and Portuguese word for city) and “Bedda” (folk Sinhalese for village). While cities look like “concrete jungles”, they have their own charm and most city dwellers would be like fish out of water in the remote villages which offer none of the facilities that we take for granted. Tomorrow, we celebrate the cities of the world. World Cities Day brings Urban October to an end on October 31 each year and was first celebrated in 2014. As with World Habitat Day, a global observance is held in a different city ...