Taiwan Tech Company Denies Making Exploded Pagers Used In Lebanon Attacks

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A Taiwanese tech company, Gold Apollo, found itself at the center of international attention after images emerged of pagers with their branding used in recent attacks in Lebanon. The company's founder and CEO, Hsu Ching-kuan, vehemently denied any involvement, stating that the pagers were manufactured by a European firm licensed to use Gold Apollo's branding.

A crowd of journalists hears from Gold Apollo founder and chief executive Hsu Ching-kuan at the door of the company's office in New Taipei City in the wake of the pager attacks in Lebanon.A crowd of journalists hears from Gold Apollo founder and chief executive Hsu Ching-kuan at the door of the company's office in New Taipei City in the wake of the pager attacks in Lebanon.

Inside, police officers sat at a table with the company’s chief executive and founder, Hsu Ching-kuang. On a whiteboard behind him was written: AR-924, the model number of pagers that had simultaneouslyThe blasts killed at least nine people, wounded 3,000 and further ratcheted up tensions in the Middle East.

Gold Apollo was founded in 1995 by Hsu and now employs 40 people. On Wednesday, its website was inaccessible but the Guardian couldn’t confirm when it went down. An archived version from April showed a dedicated page for the AR-924 model, which Gold Apollo described as a “configurable, flexible design”.

Hsu then emerged to make another statement to cameras, again denying the Taiwan-based company had supplied the pagers, his voice shaking slightly.

 

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