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Financial Instrument - Risk Management and Fair Value - Movement in Allowance for Impairment for Short and Long-term Investments at Amortized Cost (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020 | Dec. 31, 2019
Disclosure of impairment loss and reversal of impairment loss [line items] |  |
Balance at beginning of year | $ (957) | $ (1,218)
(Additions)/Reversal | (260) | 261
Balance at end of year | $ (1,217) | $ (957)

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- Definition Additional allowance recognised in profit or loss, allowance account for credit losses and income of financial assets. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition The amount of an allowance account used to record impairments to financial assets due to credit losses. [Refer: Financial assets] + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Note Expiry date 2021-01-01 -Name IFRS -Number 7 -IssueDate 2020-01-01 -Paragraph 16 -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=7&code=ifrs-tx-2017-en-b&anchor=para_16&doctype=Standard&book=b -URIDate 2020-01-01 + Details
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- Definition Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table. + References No definition available. + Details
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