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Share Capital - Summary of Share Capital (Parenthetical) (Detail) - shares	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Disclosure of classes of share capital [abstract]
Treasury shares	51,787,959	51,787,959

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Number of treasury shares retired against retained earnings.

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