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Commitments and contingencies
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Commitments and contingencies [Abstract]  
Commitments and contingencies

20. Commitments and contingencies

(a) Operating lease commitments

The Group leases space primarily inside elevators, light boxes and billboards to display the content of its customers’ advertisements, and office premises under operating lease arrangements. These operating leases do not contain provisions for contingent rentals.

Rental expenses under operating leases were allocated to the following categories of cost and expenses:

 

                         
    Years Ended December 31,  
    2009     2010     2011  

Cost of revenues

   $ 24,386     $ 33,301     $ 43,710  

Selling and marketing expenses

     —         8       247  

General and administrative expenses

     1,595       484       485  
   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

  

Total rental expenses

   $ 25,981     $ 33,793     $ 44,442  
   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

  

As of December 31, 2011, future minimum rental payments under non-cancellable operating leases having initial or remaining lease terms of more than one year are as follows:

 

         

Year

      

2012

   $ 11,600  

2013

     1,427  

2014

     307  

2015

     —    

2016

     —    

Thereafter

     —    
   

 

 

  
    $ 13,334  
   

 

 

  

(b) Capital commitment

The Group has no material capital commitment as of December 31, 2011.

(c) Contingency

The Group is periodically involved in legal proceedings and has made provision for operational claims of $2,078 and $360 as of December 31, 2010 and 2011, respectively.

In December 2011, one of the Ad-Icon Shanghai’s outsourcing companies filed a civil lawsuit against Ad-Icon Shanghai for a defaulted fee of $255. The Group has not made provision for this lawsuit as the Company considered the probability for an unfavorable verdict was not probable, but only reasonably possible.