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PAGERS

Pagers on display at a meeting room at the Gold Apollo company building in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on Sept. 18
WORLD
Oct 17, 2024
How Hezbollah came to possess bulky pagers with concealed explosives
The pager attack, and a second on the following day that activated weaponized walkie-talkies, killed 39 people and wounded more than 3,400.
Japanese radio equipment maker Icom director Yoshiki Enomoto shows its model IC-V82 device, which the company said they stopped production in 2014, during an interview at its headquarters in Osaka on Thursday.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Sep 21, 2024
Hack of Hezbollah devices exposes dark corners of Asia supply chains
Counterfeiting, surplus inventories and complex contract manufacturing deals can sometimes make it impossible to identify the source of a product.
Hashim Safieddine, a Shiite Muslim cleric and the head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, speaks Wednesday during a funeral in Beirut for some of those killed after paging devices exploded in a deadly wave across Lebanon the previous day.
EDITORIALS
Sep 20, 2024
Pager bombs just add more fuel to the Middle East fire
The tale that is emerging after the pager bombs is one that resembles a spy novel, a feat of derring-do by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.
A man holds a walkie-talkie device after he removed the battery during a funeral for those killed after hundreds of paging devices exploded in a deadly wave across Lebanon the previous day, in Beirut's southern suburbs on Wednesday.
WORLD
Sep 20, 2024
Exploding pagers attack shakes global trust in supply-chain security
While booby-trapped devices have been used in spycraft for years, the scale and violence of the attacks in Lebanon alarmed even some seasoned officials.
The remains of exploded pagers on display at an undisclosed location in Beirut's southern suburbs on Wednesday. Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 18, 2024
Taiwanese and Hungarian firms deny making Hezbollah pagers
A source close to Hezbollah previously said the devices appear to have been "sabotaged at source."
Ambulances and a crowd of people gather at the entrance of the American University of Beirut Medical Center on Tuesday after explosions hit locations in several Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon.
WORLD
Sep 18, 2024
Israel planted explosives in 5,000 Hezbollah's pagers, sources say
The operation was an unprecedented Hezbollah security breach that saw thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others.
JAPAN / History / Defining the Heisei Era
Dec 22, 2018
Defining the Heisei Era: When communication in Japan went mobile
The launch of a pager known as the Pocket Bell marked the birth of texting and mobile communications in Japan.

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