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THE Great Communicators were out in force at the Grand Hyatt in Wan Chai yesterday.

Actually, we were lucky to make it. We went up there at lunchtime in search of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), but couldn't find the group because hotel staff had removed the little sign at the entrance that tells people who has booked a function room.

It didn't matter, though, because the speeches started 20 minutes late.

We had turned up for the presentation of a Communicator of the Year Award to the sickeningly well-managed MTR, and another to Hong Kong's most famous pair of red specs, Christine Loh Kung-wai.

The last time we wrote about the IABC, which among other things is a sort of PR body for the PR industry, was last year when the body cancelled most of its 10th anniversary events because it hadn't left enough time to publicise them.

This time the embarrassment occurred when president-elect Sarah Woods called up Christine and the MTR's Miranda Leung Chan Che-ming to receive their trophies.

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