Gold Apollo

September 20, 2024 9:52 AM

Components for pagers used in Lebanon blasts are not from Taiwan, minister says

Components used in thousands of pagers that detonated on Tuesday in Lebanon were not made in Taiwan, Taiwan's economy minister said on Friday. Taiwan-based Gold Apollo said this week it did not manufacture the devices used in the attack, and that they were made by a Budapest-based company BAC which has a license to use its brand. "The components are low-end IC (integrated circuits) and batteries," Economy Minister Kuo Jyh-huei told reporters. When he was pressed on whether the parts in the pa...

Hezbollah exploding pager trail runs from Taiwan to Hungary

The detonation of thousands of pagers targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon has left a mysterious trail from Taiwan to Hungary, while raising the prospect of another full-scale war in the Middle East between the Iran-backed group and arch-foe Israel. Israel's Mossad spy agency, which has a long history of pulling off sophisticated attacks on foreign soil, planted explosives inside pagers imported by Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations that killed nine people, a senior Lebanese security sourc...