Media spotlight shifted to Taiwan tech company Gold Apollo which has denied supplying the pagers that exploded across the Hezbollah network 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.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 An archived version from April showed a dedicated page for the AR-924 model, which Gold Apollo described as a “configurable, flexible design”.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 this the Taiwan-based company had supplied the pagers, his voice shaking slightly.
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