Taipei. Taiwanese company Gold Apollo has said that the pagers that exploded in Lebanon were not manufactured in Taiwan but by a company in Budapest. The company whose pagers exploded in Lebanon on Tuesday has a license to manufacture products under the name of Gold Apollo. Gold Apollo founder and chairman Ching-Kuang, while talking to the media in Taipei, said that the pagers that exploded were not manufactured by us, but only had our brand name on them.