Gold Apollo’s offices in northern Taiwan. Emily Feng/NPR
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. At one point, he claimed his company, Gold Apollo, dominated 99% of the Dutch pager market and even counted the FBI as a client.
But on Wednesday, he faced an onslaught of police officers and journalists outside his office in northern Taiwan, after Gold Apollo was linked to hundreds of pagers belonging to members of