By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) -She speaks seven languages, has a PhD in particle physics, an apartment in Budapest plastered with her own pastel drawings of nudes, and a career that took her around Africa and Europe doing humanitarian work.

Taiwan's government and Bulgarian authorities Friday both denied making the exploding pagers used by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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

By Ben Blanchard and Faith Hung TAIPEI (Reuters) -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 said on Friday.

By Ben Blanchard and Faith Hung TAIPEI (Reuters) -Authorities in Taiwan and Bulgaria on Friday denied involvement in the supply chain of thousands of pagers that detonated on Tuesday in Lebanon in a deadly blow to Hezbollah.

The trail of the pagers that blew up in Lebanon around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, killing or maiming thousands and sparking fears of a new Middle East war, leads to a small post-box office wedged between a highway and a dilapidated railway station in Budapest.

Taiwanese Minister of Economy Kuo Hui said on Friday that the components found in the pagers that exploded on Tuesday in Lebanon were not manufactured in Taiwan. Earlier this week, media reported that the pagers' model was the AR-924 device by Taiwanese brand Gold Apollo.