{"id":66809,"date":"2024-09-18T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/18\/this-is-very-embarrassing-middle-east-crisis-takes-a-detour-to-an-office-park-in-taiwan"},"modified":"2024-09-18T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T06:00:30","slug":"this-is-very-embarrassing-middle-east-crisis-takes-a-detour-to-an-office-park-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66809","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is very embarrassing\u2019: Middle East crisis takes a detour to an office park in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media spotlight shifted to Taiwan tech company Gold Apollo which has denied supplying the pagers that exploded across the Hezbollah network in Lebanon<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/18\/hezbollah-pager-explosion-lebanon-israel-gold-apollo\">Pagers in deadly attack on Hezbollah \u2018made in Europe\u2019, as Middle East braces for reprisals<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/sep\/18\/middle-east-crisis-live-hezbollah-pager-explosion-lebanon-irael-iran-latest-updates\">Middle East crisis &#8211; live updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was an unusual and alarming day at work for the staff and neighbours of Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese tech company in an office park in a leafy district half an hour outside Taipei.<\/p>\n<p>On the third floor of building \u201cB\u201d, dozens of media crowded the corridor outside Gold Apollo\u2019s glass entrance, which was still festooned with leftover Lunar New Year decorations wishing for prosperity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/18\/this-is-very-embarrassing-middle-east-crisis-takes-a-detour-to-an-office-park-in-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media spotlight shifted to Taiwan tech company Gold Apollo which has denied supplying the pagers that exploded across the Hezbollah network in LebanonPagers in deadly attack on Hezbollah \u2018made in Europe\u2019, as Middle East braces for reprisalsMiddle East &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4412,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3041,3039,869,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hezbollah","category-israel-gaza-war","category-lebanon","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66810,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66809\/revisions\/66810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}