‘The product wasn’t ours’: Taiwan tech firm says pagers that exploded were made in Hungary

TAIPEI – Taiwanese tech company Gold Apollo has denied manufacturing the pagers used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon that exploded on Sept 17, after images revealed that its brand label was pasted on the backs of the detonated models.

“The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it,” Mr Hsu Ching-kuang, the company’s founder and president, told reporters on Sept 18 at the firm’s office, which is situated in a business park a 30-minute drive from the Taiwanese capital of Taipei.

Instead, the company that manufactures wireless communication devices said in a…