Sandi Sidhu - Field Producer
Sandi Sidhu
Field Producer
Sandi Sidhu is an award-winning field producer for CNN, based at the network's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.
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Bodies, pickup truck found in Mexican region where American and Australian tourists went missing, sources say
May 4, 2024
Three bodies were found Friday in the Mexican region where an American and two Australians have been missing for several days, multiple sources told CNN.
Mexico questions three people over missing American and Australian tourists
May 4, 2024
Concerns are growing for a trio of missing tourists, including a US citizen, as Mexican authorities question three people in connection with their disappearance.
Sydney mall attacker may have targeted women, police say, as more details emerge of his six victims
Apr 16, 2024
Australian police said Monday that the attacker who fatally stabbed six people at a busy shopping mall in Sydney’s beach suburb of Bondi may have been targeting women, as heartbreaking details emerged of those who lost their lives, plunging a nation into mourning.
Six dead in mass stabbing at Sydney shopping center
Apr 13, 2024
Six people have been killed and several others injured, including a child, in a mass stabbing at a busy shopping center in Sydney, Australian police said.
Myanmar military loses control of key town on Thai border, rebels say, in major win for anti-junta resistance
Apr 12, 2024
Myanmar rebels fighting the junta say they have seized the last remaining military base in a key border town, dealing the latest significant blow to the country’s military rulers as they struggle to cling to power.
At least 25 dead after wedding party bus bursts into flames in India
Jul 1, 2023
At least 25 people have been killed after a bus carrying a wedding party burst into flames after crashing in India’s western state of Maharashtra on Saturday.
US citizen detained on drug charges in Moscow identified as rock band manager Travis Leake
Jun 11, 2023
The US State Department has confirmed the arrest of American citizen Travis Leake in Russia and said US embassy officials attended his arraignment Saturday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the scene of train crash that killed more than 280 in India
Jun 4, 2023
More than 280 people were killed and over 1,000 injured in a three-way crash involving two passenger trains and a freight train in eastern Odisha state on Friday, officials said.
At least 19 children killed in school dormitory fire in Guyana
May 23, 2023
At least 19 children died in a “horrific” school dormitory fire in Guyana, which has shocked the nation and led to its president to declare three days of national mourning.
US Army Special Forces veteran killed in ‘barrage’ of Russian artillery in Bakhmut
May 17, 2023
A retired US Army Special Forces soldier has been identified as the American citizen killed by Russian artillery in the embattled city of Bakhmut this week, according to a close friend and the founder of a non-profit group working in Ukraine.
Indian police arrest alleged Sikh separatist leader, ending vast manhunt
Apr 24, 2023
Police in India say they have arrested alleged Sikh separatist leader Amritpal Singh, bringing to an end a massive months-long manhunt.
‘How many more children have to die?’ Myanmar airstrike survivors ask what will it take for the world to act
Apr 21, 2023
When its helicopter gunships and fighter jets rained fire and bombs on a village celebration last Tuesday, Myanmar’s military junta insisted it was targeting “terrorists.”
Screaming people and bodies everywhere: The horrific aftermath of Myanmar junta airstrike that killed 165
Apr 13, 2023
Relatives were still recovering the charred bodies and limbs of victims killed in a military airstrike on a village in central Myanmar Wednesday, a day after one of the deadliest attacks since the junta seized power in a coup two years ago.
Chinese authorities close Beijing offices of US Mintz Group detaining five local staff
Mar 24, 2023
Chinese authorities have closed the Beijing office of Mintz Group, an American corporate due diligence firm, and detained five local staff, the company said Friday.
Defiant Putin visits occupied Mariupol, symbol of Ukrainian resistance
Mar 20, 2023
Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to Russian-occupied Mariupol, his first visit to territory captured by his forces in the year-long full-scale conflict.
‘Mom, please just kill me’: A world looks away from Myanmar’s descent into horror
Feb 1, 2023
Two years after the military seized power in a bloody coup, Myanmar is being rocked by violence and instability in a conflict the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the country says “has been forgotten” by the international community.
About
Sandi Sidhu is an award-winning field producer for CNN, based at the network’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.
She is responsible for producing key stories from the region and around the world including the Myanmar coup in 2021, the coronavirus outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan in 2020, the Sri Lanka bombings in 2019, the Thai cave rescue in 2018, and the assassination of Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia in 2017. That same year she was also deployed to the UK to cover the Manchester bombings.
Prior to joining CNN, Sidhu worked for ITV News in London for 9 years where she won five Royal Television Society awards for crime and national security reporting and a BAFTA for her work on the Woolwich terrorist attack. She won another RTS award for a year-long investigation into U.K Jihadis in Syria.
Sidhu studied at the University of Bedfordshire where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree majoring in Media Production and Performance. She also completed a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Birmingham City University.
