Rescuing goods is loaded at the Beijing Capital International Airport on December 28. China will provide over 21 million yuan (US$2.6 million) in aid for victims in Asian countries hit by the massive earthquake and devastating tsunami. [newsphoto]

Members of Chinese earthquake rescuing team wait to board the plane at the Beijing Capital International Airport on December 30, 2004. The 30-member team will be dispatched to Indonesia, which have the worst tsunami-hit area and have lost over 30,000 lives. [Xinhua]  

At least three Chinese were killed and 13 injured in the quake-driven tidal waves that swept southern Asia on Sunday, authorities said yesterday.
Two of the victims were from Hong Kong and the third was a Taiwan resident.
Among the injured, two are from Shanghai, three are Hong Kong residents, four are from Beijing, three from Zhejiang Province and one from Yunnan Province, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said in Beijing yesterday.
Meanwhile, four tourists who traveled from Shanghai to Phuket for a golf outing were reported missing yesterday.
Three are natives of Suzhou in Jiangsu Province: Liu Genliang, 72; his wife, He Shuqin, 69; and Zhao Su, 30. The fourth is Wo Guiling, 27, of Inner Mongolia.
They were traveling in a 26-member group organized by the Shanghai Peace International Travel Agency and were swept away by waves that hit Phi Phi Island near Phuket, according to the Xinmin Evening News.
Hong kong Deputy Secretary for Security Michael Wong said the government is still trying to contact 277 Hong Kong residents, down from 388 a day ago. Officials have dispatched 150 workers to Phuket to help locate the missing, he said.
Chinese consulates in the disaster regions will provide help to stranded Chinese citizens, Liu noted.
The foreign Ministry spokesman said that China will increase its emergency assistance to the tsunami-hit countries, providing goods and financial support.
China has already donated 21.63 million yuan (US$2.615 million) worth of relief supplies to the affected countries.
The decision to increase aid came on Wednesday when Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing held an emergency meeting with other government departments.
"The relief goods will mainly include medicines, generators and food, and the ministry will cooperate closely with the departments concerned in airlifting the humanitarian aid to the tsunami-hit countries in the shortest possible time," Ministry of Commerce spokesman Chong Quan said yesterday morning.
The chinese government said it is providing tents, blankets, food and other relief goods to Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Thailand.
Liu said China will send a 100-member medical team to Indonesia, the country nearest the epicenter of the massive earthquake that touched off Sunday's tsunami.