Financial Instruments - Financial liabilities (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Dec. 31, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018
Measured at amortized cost:
Short-term unsecured borrowings	$ 0	$ 57,339
Short-term secured borrowings	104,000	164,000
Accounts payables and other payables (including related parties)	222,739	154,175
Long-term unsecured borrowings (including current portion)	58,500	0
Lease liabilities	10,454	4,220
Guarantee deposits	5,765	400
Total	401,458	380,134
Unsecured Borrowings
Measured at amortized cost:
Short-term unsecured borrowings	0	57,339	$ 20,000
Secured Borrowings
Measured at amortized cost:
Short-term secured borrowings	$ 104,000	$ 164,000	$ 164,000

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The amount of long-term borrowing, including current portion.

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The amount of liabilities that are: (a) a contractual obligation: (i) to deliver cash or another financial asset to another entity; or (ii) to exchange financial assets or financial liabilities with another entity under conditions that are potentially unfavourable to the entity; or (b) a contract that will, or may be, settled in the entity’s own equity instruments and is: (i) a non-derivative for which the entity is, or may be, obliged to deliver a variable number of the entity’s own equity instruments; or (ii) a derivative that will, or may be, settled other than by the exchange of a fixed amount of cash or another financial asset for a fixed number of the entity’s own equity instruments. For this purpose, rights, options or warrants to acquire a fixed number of the entity’s own equity instruments for a fixed amount of any currency are equity instruments if the entity offers the rights, options or warrants pro rata to all of its existing owners of the same class of its own non-derivative equity instruments. Also, for those purposes the entity’s own equity instruments do not include puttable financial instruments that are classified as equity instruments in accordance with paragraphs 16A-16B of IAS 32, instruments that impose on the entity an obligation to deliver to another party a pro rata share of the net assets of the entity only on liquidation and are classified as equity instruments in accordance with paragraphs 16C-16D of IAS 32, or instruments that are contracts for the future receipt or delivery of the entity’s own equity instruments. As an exception, an instrument that meets the definition of a financial liability is classified as an equity instrument if it has all the features and meets the conditions in paragraphs 16A-16B or paragraphs 16C-16D of IAS 32. [Refer: Financial instruments, class [member]; Financial assets; Derivatives [member]]

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The amount of liabilities related to the entity's leases. Lease is a contract, or part of a contract, that conveys the right to use an underlying asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration.

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The amount of loans received from banks that have been secured by collateral. [Refer: Loans received]

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The amount of trade payables and other payables. [Refer: Trade payables; Other payables]

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The amount of loans received from banks that have not been secured by collateral. [Refer: Loans received]

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