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Trump Admin Suspends Chinese Visa-Free Entry to US Islands Over Birth Tourism and Security Concerns

The US will suspend visa-free travel for eligible Chinese visitors to the Northern Mariana Islands, citing birth tourism and national security concerns.

International Business Times UK · 21h ago

Chinese Immigrant Died in ICE Custody in Pennsylvania After Fellow Detainees Say Pleas for Medical Help Went Ignored

Lianyong Wei was found unresponsive during morning checks at a detention facility in Saipan on August 23, a day after ICE took him into custody pending removal proceedings

Latin Times · Sep 4

A Man Died Within a Day of Entering ICE Custody and Nobody Will Say If He Was Screened

Lianyong Wei died hours after entering ICE custody in Saipan. DHS declined to confirm whether he received the required 12-hour health screening.

Medical Daily · Sep 3

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Chinese Man Dies Just Hours Into ICE Custody as a Missing Medical Screening Raises Alarm in Saipan

Lianyong Wei, 51, died hours into ICE custody in Saipan. ICE won't say whether he got the required 12-hour medical screening or why it waited a week to disclose his death.

International Business Times UK · Sep 3

On This Day in History, June 15: Magna Carta sealed, first blood transfusion experiment, Batman Begins released and other key events

On This Day in History, June 15 features landmark moments spanning law, science, war and culture. From the sealing of Magna Carta in 1215 and the first documented blood transfusion in 1667 to World War II events like the U.S. attack on Saipan, the date also includes breakthroughs in aviation,…

The Economic Times · Jun 14

'Roy Keane leaving Saipan in 2002 galvanised us but Mick McCarthy wasn't right to question him in front of the squad' Ex-Republic of Ireland international Clinton Morrison gives first-hand account of famous 2002 World Cup fallout

With the World Cup now underway, Clinton Morrison gives his take on that iconic bust-up between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy

FourFourTwo · Jun 13

Fears for six missing crew as overturned cargo ship found after typhoon

The US Coast Guard has confirmed an overturned ship located near the US territory of Saipan is the vessel that disappeared

The Independent UK · Apr 20

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US Coast Guard spots overturned vessel near Saipan during search for missing ship with 6 on board

The U.S. Coast Guard says an airplane search crew has spotted an overturned ship matching the description of a cargo vessel that went missing with six people on board near the western Pacific territory of Saipan

The Independent UK · Apr 18

Typhoon flipped over cars and ripped away roofs on US islands in the Pacific Ocean

A super typhoon in the Pacific Ocean flipped over cars and ripped away tin roofs on the remote Northern Mariana Islands

The Independent UK · Apr 15

Super typhoon slows to a crawl as it bears down on remote US islands

The typhoon slowed to a crawl as it approached the islands, raising fears that the fierce storm won’t go away quickly

The Independent UK · Apr 14

Mick McCarthy launches sweary rant about his 'Saipan' depiction claiming he walked out after 20 minutes

The former Republic of Ireland boss is unhappy about how he has been portrayed by actor Steve Coogan while also taking aim at Roy Keane

FourFourTwo · Mar 30

Saipan: Roy Keane World Cup drama is a highly entertaining slice of Irish football history

In the summer of 2002, a dispute inside the Republic of Ireland’s football camp spiralled into a national controversy. Few sporting rows have lodged themselves in the Irish imagination as stubbornly as Keane v McCarthy in Saipan, culminating in Keane’s departure from the Irish World Cup squad.

The Conversation · Jan 27

What Keane and McCarthy’s absurd row in Saipan tells us about Irish identity and principles

WORLD CUP 2002: The new film dramatises a seminal moment in Irish footballing history, and Miguel Delaney details the lessons learned and how an undiscovered twist adds a new layer to one of the biggest controversies in Irish sporting history

The Independent UK · Jan 27

From Saipan to Take That: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Steve Coogan stars in a loose retelling of an infamous football falling-out, while a new Netflix doc gets nostalgic about the heyday of Gary Barlow and co

The Guardian - UK · Jan 24

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The Conversation · Jan 23

Saipan: the story behind Roy Keane’s World Cup walkout on Ireland’s football team

Don’t make the mistake of thinking Saipan is a film about the brutal second world war battle on this small Pacific island. It is, in fact, the tale of a ridiculous and heartbreaking football bust-up that almost tore a country apart.

The Independent UK · Jan 23

Éanna Hardwicke: ‘A lot of TV fetishises people who do appalling things’

RISING STARS: The Irish rising star tells Tom Murray about playing one of football’s hardest men, Roy Keane, in ‘Saipan’, the perils of acting opposite one of his heroes, Steve Coogan, and the state of true crime TV

The Guardian - UK · Jan 22

‘The emotion you get from the game is insane’: the Roy Keane bust-up film leading a new type of football movie

Saipan, about Keane’s infamous World Cup row with manager Mick McCarthy, has become a hit film in its native Ireland – as it opens in the UK screenwriter Paul Fraser explains how he aimed to avoid the mistakes of the past

The Guardian - UK · Jan 21

Saipan review – Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy’s epic spat becomes amusing state-of-the-nation psychodrama

Éanna Hardwick and Steve Coogan star as furious Keane and his luckless manager McCarthy in this retelling of the Man Utd star’s infamous 2002 walkout

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The Guardian - UK · Jan 10

Beyond Keane’s stick-it-up-your-bollocks, there isn’t much else to Saipan

Why is the film of Ireland’s 2002 World Cup falling-out not a documentary but a drama that takes liberties with events?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 28, 2025

‘We are no longer apologising’: Éanna Hardwicke on Ireland’s cultural confidence and what it’s like to play Roy Keane

Currently on stage in a play that provoked riots, the rising Irish actor is also stepping into Keane’s boots to replay a notorious footballing feud. But, he says, his country feels more empowered than ever before

FourFourTwo · Nov 15, 2025

An Ireland apart: How Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy's Saipan fallout went box office

Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy produced one of football’s most dramatic stories when they ripped into each other in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in 2002 – now the saga is being retold in a new movie that hits the cinemas in January

Evening Standard · Nov 8, 2025

Saipan filmmaker told he was going to ‘open old wounds’

The producer of the movie Saipan was told he was ‘mad’ to work on a film about the Irish team at the 2002 World Cup.

The Guardian - US · Sep 5, 2025

Saipan review – football scandal makes for thrilling big-screen drama

Steve Coogan and a knockout Éanna Hardwicke take on Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane in this involving workplace drama about a 2002 tabloid storm

The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2025

Saipan film to reopen old wounds between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy ultras

Drama-biopic starring Steve Coogan will reignite a row that split Irish football fans but there are good signs for its artistic merit

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2024

Can Steve Coogan solve a feud that has gripped Irish football for decades?

In today’s Football Daily: get ready for the film adaptation of events in Saipan

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