Paul Tan’s Automotive News wins NPC-Sime Darby Blogger Of The Year 2011 Award

Paul Tan’s Automotive News wins NPC-Sime Darby Blogger Of The Year 2011 Award
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The National Press Club recently had their NPC-Naza Awards Night 2011, which is in its second year now. The NPC-Naza awards recognises Malaysian journalists who have created a positive impact on society and the growth of journalism through their work.

Harvinder Singh received the NPC-Sime Darby Blogger Of The Year 2011 award on behalf of the Paul Tan’s Automotive News team from our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak at the event. We also received a RM3,000 cash prize, which we earlier pledged to donate to the Malaysian Red Crescent Society towards the Japanese Red Cross disaster relief fund if we won the award. We made the contribution last week.

The awards night was sponsored by Naza, AmBank, Celcom, Scomi, TM, Sime Darby, UEM and Maxis.

The other award winners include NPC-Scomi Journalist of the Year – Shahanaaz Habib of The Star, NPC-Celcom Media Personality award – Datuk Seri Wong Chun Wai, NPC-AmBank Media Legend Award – Adibah Amin, NPC-Celcom Young Journalist Of The Year – Melissa Ong, NPC-TM Lifetime Achievement Award – Musa Scully, NPC-UEM Online Journalist of the Year – Aidila Razak, NPC-Tan Sri Nasimuddin SM Amin 1Malaysian of the Year – National cyclist Azizulhasni Awang, NPC-Maxis Media Icon – former NPC president Datuk Ahirudin Attan. The winners were selected by a panel of judges led by former Justice Datuk Syed Ahmad Idid.

A big thanks to the National Press Club for organising the awards to encourage the journalism industry in Malaysia, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Tun Musa Hitam and Datuk Rocky for presenting the award, as well as the sponsors for supporting the awards night.

And most importantly the biggest thanks of all to all readers that have been supporting us all this while. It has certainly been a long journey – we’re been running for over 5 years now. We hope to continuously improve our website to serve you better, so feel free to leave us any comments and suggestions.

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Harvinder Sidhu

Harvinder Singh Sidhu thinks there's nothing better than Formula 1, not even sliced bread. Having written about cars since 2006, he plunged head first into the industry out of a passion for all things four-wheeled and everything in between. The F1 enthusiast has been following the sport since 1999 and has been keeping up with it since. In between races he keeps himself busy as the host of the Driven motoring show and as our version of the Joker.

 

Comments

  • Minnie on Jul 17, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    Good work

    Now its maintaining humility and quality

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  • Holly F on Jul 17, 2011 at 6:25 pm

    Congratulations!

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  • Well done guys!!

    Keep it all up.

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  • jay8393 on Jul 17, 2011 at 6:56 pm

    Congratulations guys! Keep up the good work!

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  • hamtaro on Jul 17, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    Congratz!!!

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  • Laissez-faire on Jul 17, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    Congratulations and well done!!

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  • Expatriate VN on Jul 17, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    Congratulations! To improve this site, covered more news, including motorbike and bicycle.

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  • welldone and keep good work..

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  • Paul Tan et. al,

    Kudos guys.

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  • seriusSAM on Jul 17, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    bravo guys!!!

    keep posted good stuff

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  • Well Done =)
    Salute Paul Tan Members

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  • RedBeanBun on Jul 17, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    Salute to the donation! you show the example of we are the upcoming generation that we care about the others!

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  • rageaccel2 on Jul 17, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    congrats guys.. and just to share, based on the number of frequent visitor, now this site worth 177,655 USD.. hehe according to :- http://valuethewebsite.com/paultan.org

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  • clement on Jul 17, 2011 at 9:04 pm

    yes. indeed a long awaited good blog award for a good motoring blog like paultan.org.
    bravo and good luck! keep up the good work!

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  • KeretaMayat on Jul 17, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    I think Paultan.org really deserves the award.
    Paultan.org is different than other bloggers. Some of the blog in Malaysia only know to blame & complaint other effort just because they are born among the losers.
    Paultan.org team, keep up the good jobs. We will always support you guys!

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  • Just_Once on Jul 17, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    Congratulations to the people behind paultan.org!

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  • rulered on Jul 17, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    Well deserved and keep it up! Ehem, where’s the speech?

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  • Neutral on Jul 17, 2011 at 10:24 pm

    Congrats PT and friends, you all deserve for the award :)

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  • SquarePetrolHead on Jul 17, 2011 at 10:53 pm

    Congratulations to Paul & the Team. You deserve the recognition for the sterling job you are doing to keep us rev-heads in touch with the Malaysian & global motor world. As a personal testament, I cannot start my day without a peek first up at yoru website… ^_^y

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  • skiborne on Jul 17, 2011 at 11:14 pm

    Azizulhasni AWANG my friend. haha

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  • kingjoke on Jul 17, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    Congrats! keep it up…

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  • teamsleepnine on Jul 17, 2011 at 11:31 pm

    Congratulation..

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  • You are best bro.. Keep on writing good post

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  • Congrats =) Thanks for bringing us the latest automobile news

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  • MoFaz on Jul 18, 2011 at 12:21 am

    well done, and i believe congratulations are in order. Congrats!

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  • Ash Menon on Jul 18, 2011 at 12:59 am

    Congratulations, PT team! Special congrats must go to Paul, who started the site from a tiny WordPress blog and nurtured it to the Malaysian automotive news hub it is today.

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  • freeze on Jul 18, 2011 at 1:03 am

    Why didn’t Paul go up there?

    To refrain himself from punching baldy in the face?

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  • harris murad on Jul 18, 2011 at 1:51 am

    Well done Paul and Team!

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  • Carl Wong on Jul 18, 2011 at 2:27 am

    Thank you very much Paul and your friends, definitely deserved it and I just love the website :)…!!!!

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  • clutch basah on Jul 18, 2011 at 7:12 am

    Congratulation the people of Paultan.org., you deserved every bit of it. You guys are so popular even my friends in Indonesia and Thailand are rooting on you. Now more test drives and local automotive and motoring news please.

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  • Congrats guys, live long and prosper. May the force be with you.

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  • linear_system on Jul 18, 2011 at 8:36 am

    congrats guys!

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  • Bravo, bravo!

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  • Kumar san on Jul 18, 2011 at 8:50 am

    Congratulations Harvinder! Keep up the awesome work.Your efforts in ensuring the car enthusiast of Malaysia and the rest of the motoring world in getting the latest and most cohesive updates in the automotive industry has been duly recognized.

    Take it from me buddy,i have been in this automotive industry as a design/test phasing development&prototyping engineer for a little over 26 years,abroad initially and of recent,on our home soil.Before you came into the picture with your splendid automotive blog,there wasn’t a nigh of a local dude to took up the challenge to do what you have accomplished.Kudos to you and your team.Ace job.Keep it coming.It’s always nice to know that a Malaysian is responsible for this acknowledged popularity.

    Cheers.

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  • edperdana on Jul 18, 2011 at 9:36 am

    To Paul& Team,

    Congratulations & Keep up the excellent work..

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  • Congrat. Well done. Keep it up.

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  • sudha on Jul 18, 2011 at 11:49 am

    Following this site from it’s early days in 2005, I must say, humility is a virtue that has been held since.

    It’s great to see this site grow, expanding its scope of coverage from just reporting automotive news and reviews to bringing insights to motoring nuts in the country.

    Kudos to the founder, Paul Tan for take the first leap in online motoring journalism in Malaysia and weathering change to stay beyond relevance.

    I think the one thing we can applaud together is the consistent stream of unbiased motoring journalism seen here in paultan.org.

    You’ve come a long way since the Savvy spyshot days… :)

    Congrats and a job well done!!
    sudha

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  • Congrats guys…keep up the good work!

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  • creativemind on Jul 18, 2011 at 1:03 pm

    timely recognition n a fantastic site for auto information, really good work from Paul Tan and team. congrats all the way, keep it up… if u guys r going for any election seats, u hv my vote…

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  • ezracopters on Jul 18, 2011 at 1:08 pm

    congrat Paultan team

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  • Hameed Koyakuti on Jul 18, 2011 at 1:36 pm

    Viva Paul & crue !!! Congratulazition !!!!

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  • Wisdom on Jul 18, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    Congrats and thanks Paul & team. To me, this blog not only sharing automotive news, but it thought us malaysian on a lot of things; technology, market, english, to name a few. We are getting matured, overcome branding problem, and have better info when choosing the right car, be it national or non-national.

    Thank you Paul & team.

    * Also this has been a good place argue on cars (or anything). One of my favorite is this. Sorry whiteeye for me being naughty. Sincerely apologize.
    : http://paultan.org/2008/11/11/video-carbon-motors-e7-purpose-built-police-car/

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  • Congratulations

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  • Mat Mitsu on Jul 18, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    Congratulation. Keep feeding us with your second to none automotive news.

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  • ilyasadam on Jul 19, 2011 at 2:22 am

    Congratulations Paultans Team !!

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  • putra_rider on Jul 19, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    Congratulation!!!!

    U r simply the best!!!

    My day not complete if i’m not read your blog.
    the info u shared give us more knowledge,
    usually if anybody want to know about motoring issues i’ll say:

    Find paultan.org. Everything new and news about motoring u can find there.

    Thank you.

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  • fique d on Jul 22, 2011 at 1:51 pm

    congrats paul…

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