Note 8 - Employee Defined Contribution Plan

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2019

Notes to Financial Statements

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 employee benefits, which were expensed as incurred, were

$14

and

$26

for the

three

and

six

months ended

June 30, 2018

and were

$18

and

$39

for the

three

and

six

months ended

June 30, 2019,

respectively.