Copper price.

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Dividend payment date.

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Dividends paid to non controlling interest.

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Gross proceeds on exercise of subscription rights before expenses.

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Rights offering price per share.

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Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with members defined in one or many axes of the table.

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The amount of dividends proposed or declared after the reporting period but before financial statements are authorised for issue. Such dividends are not recognised as a liability at the end of the reporting period because no obligation exists at that time.

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The amount, per share, of dividends proposed or declared before financial statements were authorised for issue but not recognised as distribution to owners.

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The gains (losses) recognised in other comprehensive income on remeasuring available-for-sale financial assets, before tax, before reclassification adjustments. [Refer: Financial assets available-for-sale]

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The number of shares issued by the entity.

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Subsequent Event - Additional Information (Detail) ฿ / shares in Units, $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands, ฿ in Millions				3 Months Ended
	Feb. 02, 2022 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Mar. 12, 2021 USD ($)	Mar. 12, 2021 THB (฿) ฿ / shares	Mar. 31, 2022 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($)
Disclosure Of Nonadjusting Events After Reporting Period [Line Items]
Copper price per ton					$ 9,692
Subsequent Event [Member]
Disclosure Of Nonadjusting Events After Reporting Period [Line Items]
Copper price per ton				$ 10,337
Unrealized loss				$ 800
Rights Offering [Member]
Disclosure Of Nonadjusting Events After Reporting Period [Line Items]
Number of shares issued \| shares	6,796,558
Rights offering price per share \| $ / shares	$ 1.22
Gross proceeds on exercise of subscription rights before expenses	$ 8,300
Charoong Thai Wire and Cable Public Company Limited [Member] \| Major ordinary share transactions [Member]
Disclosure Of Nonadjusting Events After Reporting Period [Line Items]
Dividend payments declared to its shareholders		$ 1,200	฿ 39.8
Dividend payments declared to its shareholders, per share \| ฿ / shares			฿ 0.10
Dividend payment date		May 20, 2022	May 20, 2022
Dividends paid to non-controlling interests		$ 600