{"id":66862,"date":"2024-09-20T12:16:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T03:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/20\/hezbollah-pager-explosion-gold-apollo-hsu-chingkuang-taiwan"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:16:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T03:16:33","slug":"taiwan-questions-president-of-pager-company-linked-to-hezbollah-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66862","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan questions president of pager company linked to Hezbollah explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hsu Ching-kuang has denied his company manufactured the pagers used in the attack in Lebanon as hunt for origins of exploding devices continues<\/p>\n<p>The president and founder of the <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\">Taiwanese pager company<\/a> linked to pagers used by Hezbollah has been questioned by prosecutors and released, as the hunt for the origins of devices that detonated across Lebanon this week spreads across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Gold Apollo\u2019s president, Hsu Ching-kuang, has said his company did not manufacture the pagers used in the attack on Tuesday, and that they were made by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/19\/israeli-front-controlled-manufacturing-process-likeliest-explanation-for-attacks-on-hezbollah\">Budapest-based company BAC<\/a> which has a licence to use its brand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/20\/hezbollah-pager-explosion-gold-apollo-hsu-chingkuang-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hsu Ching-kuang has denied his company manufactured the pagers used in the attack in Lebanon as hunt for origins of exploding devices continuesThe president and founder of the Taiwanese pager company linked to pagers used by Hezbollah has been question&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4418,"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":[3041,3039,869,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hezbollah","category-israel-gaza-war","category-lebanon","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66862","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\/4418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66867,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66862\/revisions\/66867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}