Taiwan provides update on its investigation into Lebanon’s exploding pagers
6 months ago

Taiwan provides update on its investigation into Lebanon’s exploding pagers

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Four people have been questioned as witnesses in the investigation into a Taiwanese company linked to pagers that detonated in Lebanon last week, prosecutors said. Manufacturing labels on the exploded pagers indicated they were made by Gold Apollo, but the Taiwanese company denied making them. The remains of exploded pagers on display Although the Taiwanese government also claimed that the pagers were not made on the island, prosecutors in Taipei opened an investigation into Gold Apollo.

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Taiwanese firms didn't make Hezbollah's exploding pagers, say prosecutors
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Taiwanese firms didn't make Hezbollah's exploding pagers, say prosecutors

Firstpost  

Prosecutors have concluded that Taiwanese firms did not make Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s pagers that exploded across the nation in Israeli attack in September Pagers on display at a meeting room at the Gold Apollo company building in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on September 18, 2024. Reuters Taiwan on Monday said it had closed a probe into pagers that exploded in Lebanon …

Why did American company block its website after Lebanon pager explosions?
6 months, 1 week ago

Why did American company block its website after Lebanon pager explosions?

Firstpost  

Media reports haven’t mentioned pager-maker Golden Sab, which does business as Digital Paging Company with Gold Apollo and supplies to the US military Twelve people, including Hezbollah operatives, were killed and 2,800 others wounded in a series of synchronised pager explosions by the Mossad, Unit 8200 and the IDF in Lebanon on Tuesday. https://t.co/s9rJXNyTYJ pic.twitter.com/GwRv7WwfKn — BigBreakingWire September 18, 2024 …

Woman whose company was linked to exploding pagers in Lebanon has received threats, her mother says
6 months, 1 week ago

Woman whose company was linked to exploding pagers in Lebanon has received threats, her mother says

Associated Press  

ROME — The woman whose company was linked to thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria in an attack on Hezbollah this week has received unspecified “threats” in the days since and has been advised by the Hungarian secret services “not to talk to media,” her mother told The Associated Press on Friday. Beatrix Bársony-Arcidiacono said by phone …

Components for pagers used in Lebanon blasts not from Taiwan, minister says
6 months, 1 week ago

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

Al Jazeera  

Components used in thousands of pagers that detonated on Tuesday in Lebanon in a deadly blow to Hezbollah were not made in Taiwan, Taiwan’s economy minister has said. “The components are low-end IC and batteries,” Taiwan’s Economy Minister Kuo Jyh-huei told reporters on Friday. Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung, also speaking to reporters at parliament, answered “no” when asked if …

BAC consulting: British-educated businesswoman denies making Hezbollah explosive pagers at Hungary company
6 months, 2 weeks ago

BAC consulting: British-educated businesswoman denies making Hezbollah explosive pagers at Hungary company

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A Lebanese security source claimed …

Middle East pager attacks ignite fear of supply chain warfare
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Middle East pager attacks ignite fear of supply chain warfare

Politico  

Private sector companies and public officials alike are still taking stock of the policy implications, but it could motivate governments to further restrict the flow of sensitive technology and encourage companies to move more manufacturing back home or to friendly third countries. “I would imagine there’s a lot of warehouse managers today, and you know, cargo ship owners who are …

Mystery over Hezbollah's exploding pagers deepens as Hungary insists devices that wounded thousands in Lebanon were never in the country despite claims Budapest firm built gadgets
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Mystery over Hezbollah's exploding pagers deepens as Hungary insists devices that wounded thousands in Lebanon were never in the country despite claims Budapest firm built gadgets

Daily Mail  

Hungary insisted today that a Budapest firm linked to Hezbollah pagers that detonated in Lebanon yesterday had never built the gadgets in the country - as questions mount over how the devices laden with explosives reached the group in the Middle East. Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon on September 17 Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, who studied in …

Pictured: British-educated boss of Hungarian firm accused of making pagers that exploded wounding hundreds of Hezbollah fighters as she denies producing gadgets and insists she is 'just the intermedia
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Pictured: British-educated boss of Hungarian firm accused of making pagers that exploded wounding hundreds of Hezbollah fighters as she denies producing gadgets and insists she is 'just the intermedia

Daily Mail  

The glamorous CEO of a company accused of manufacturing the exploding pagers that killed 12 people and injured thousands in one of the most audacious attacks ever launched by Israel on Hezbollah has been pictured. Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, who studied in London and lists 'disaster management' as one of her skills, is listed as the Chief Executive of the Hungarian-based company …

Lebanon Is Rocked Again By Exploding Devices As Israel Declares A 'New Phase' Of War
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Lebanon Is Rocked Again By Exploding Devices As Israel Declares A 'New Phase' Of War

Huff Post  

BEIRUT, LEBANON - SEPTEMBER 18: People attend the funeral ceremony held for Hezbollah member, who died in a pager explosion, in the Dahieh neighborhood in the south of Beirut, Lebanon on September 18, 2024. Anadolu via Getty Images BEIRUT — Walkie-talkies and solar equipment exploded in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon on Wednesday in an apparent second wave of …

Pager attack in Lebanon: Taiwanese company Gold Apollo denies making pagers used in Hezbollah attack
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Pager attack in Lebanon: Taiwanese company Gold Apollo denies making pagers used in Hezbollah attack

The Independent  

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How Israeli spies 'hid explosives in 5000 pagers of Hezbollah members'
6 months, 2 weeks ago

How Israeli spies 'hid explosives in 5000 pagers of Hezbollah members'

Daily Mail  

A pager bomb attack that left roughly 2,800 Hezbollah members and civilians injured and nine dead in Lebanon and Syria yesterday was authored by Israel's Mossad spy agency and the IDF, several security sources claim. The Lebanese group earlier this year ordered thousands of pagers to conduct communications after leader Hassan Nasrallah declared smartphones would be more susceptible to cyber …

How Israeli spies 'stashed explosives in 5,000 European-made pagers at production level months ago before detonating Hezbollah devices' - as 'coded text message that triggered blasts' is revealed
6 months, 2 weeks ago

How Israeli spies 'stashed explosives in 5,000 European-made pagers at production level months ago before detonating Hezbollah devices' - as 'coded text message that triggered blasts' is revealed

Daily Mail  

A pager bomb attack that left roughly 2,800 Hezbollah members and civilians injured and 12 dead in Lebanon and Syria yesterday was authored by Israel's Mossad spy agency and the IDF, several security sources claim. Pagers used by Hezbollah members for vital communications exploded yesterday, injuring thousands A police officer inspects a car in which a hand-held pager exploded, in …

Pagers Involved In Lebanon Explosions Licensed To Budapest Company, Taiwan's Gold Apollo Clarifies
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Pagers Involved In Lebanon Explosions Licensed To Budapest Company, Taiwan's Gold Apollo Clarifies

ABP News  

Lebanon on Tuesday was rocked by explosions involving pagers that resulted in the deaths of at least nine individuals and injuries to nearly 3,000, drawing attention to the devices' origins. The pagers, used by members of Hezbollah, were manufactured by BAC Consulting, a company based in Budapest, according to Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese firm. Photographic evidence reviewed by Reuters revealed …

Taiwanese company Gold Apollo denies supplying exploding pagers in Lebanon
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Taiwanese company Gold Apollo denies supplying exploding pagers in Lebanon

LA Times  

People gather outside the American University hospital in Beirut where several men who were wounded by exploding handheld pagers were taken Tuesday. According to media reports citing Lebanese and American officials, Hezbollah ordered more than 3,000 electronic pagers from Gold Apollo, a manufacturer of wireless communication devices based in New Taipei City. The company’s founder, Hsu Ching-kuang, told reporters Wednesday …

Tracking the exploding pagers used in apparent Israeli attack on Hezbollah
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Tracking the exploding pagers used in apparent Israeli attack on Hezbollah

NPR  

Tracking the exploding pagers used in apparent Israeli attack on Hezbollah toggle caption Emily Feng/NPR TAIPEI, Taiwan — Entrepreneur Hsu Ching-kuang was once lauded in Taiwan for resuscitating the archaic electronic pager, in part by pivoting into sales to foreign governments. But on Wednesday, he faced an onslaught of police officers and journalists outside his office in northern Taiwan, after …

British-educated entrepreneur denies manufacturing explosive pagers
6 months, 2 weeks ago

British-educated entrepreneur denies manufacturing explosive pagers

The Telegraph  

A British-educated entrepreneur has denied manufacturing the pagers that wounded hundreds of Hezbollah fighters in a simultaneous explosion on Tuesday. The pagers, used by the Lebanese terror group to communicate securely, wounded more than 3,000 people and killed at least 12 in an audacious Israeli attack reportedly triggered because Mossad feared its plot had been exposed. Gold Apollo said “the …

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