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Applicable laws and regulations (Details 3) - Financial assets impaired [member] - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Dec. 31, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019
Impaired loans	$ 10,593	$ 61,845
Normal [Member]
Impaired loans	0	0
Special mention loans
Impaired loans	0	0
Substandards [Member]
Impaired loans	10,593	0
Doubtful [Member]
Impaired loans	0	0
Unrecoverable [Member]
Impaired loans	$ 0	$ 61,845

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- Definition

The amount of non-current loans and receivables. [Refer: Loans and receivables]

+ 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 8
-Subparagraph c
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-URIDate 2020-01-01

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