REVEALED: Saipan - The Real Truth

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

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

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

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 Conversation · Jan 23