7.	Prepayments and deposit to suppliers

	As of December 31,
	2016		2015
	US$(’000)		US$(’000)

Deposits to internet resources providers		1,074		622
Prepayments to internet resources providers		2,874		3,623
Deposits to other service providers		721		1,540
Other deposits and prepayments		85		58
		4,754		5,843

The Company purchases internet resources from large internet search engines and technical services from suppliers to attract more internet traffic to its advertising portals and provide value-added services to its clients.

Deposits to internet resources providers are paid as contractual deposits to the Company’s resources and services suppliers. As of

December

31,

2016

and

2015,

deposit to internet resources providers primarily consisted of the contractual deposits paid for purchasing internet resources from

two

of the Company’s largest internet resources suppliers.

According to the contracts signed between the Company and its suppliers, the Company is normally required to pay the contract amounts in advance. These prepayments will be transferred to cost of revenues when the related services are provided.

As of

December

31,

2015,

deposits to other service providers consisted of an approximately

US$0.75

million deposit to an intermediary service provider, which the Company engaged to facilitate the Company to find, select and negotiate with its internet, TV or other media resource suppliers, and another approximately

US$0.75

million deposit for an advisory contract related to finding buyers for liansuo.com and new investors for the Company. The contract with the intermediary service provider expired on

October

31,

2016

and the related deposit was refunded to the Company in

December

2016.

Deposit related to the advisory contract for finding new investors for the Company will expire on

December

31,

2017.