Note 8 - Employee Defined Contribution Plan

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Compensation and Employee Benefit Plans [Text Block]

8.	Employee defined contribution plan

Full time employees of the Company in the PRC participate in a government mandated defined contribution plan, pursuant to which certain pension benefits, medical care, employee housing fund and other welfare benefits are provided to employees. Chinese labor regulations require that the Company’s PRC subsidiaries make contributions to the government for these benefits based on certain percentages of the employees’ salaries. The Company has no legal obligation for the benefits beyond the contributions made. The total amounts for such employees' benefits, which were expensed as incurred, were

nil

$12

and

$22

for the years ended

December

31,

2014,

2015

and

2016,

respectively.