Chinese Doctor Ding Tao treats a 2-year-old Indonesian girl injured in the tsunami onslaught. China has sent three medical teams to Banda Aceh to help in the relief work. — Reuters/Xinhua

An aircraft carrying 15 million yuan (US$1.8 million) worth of humanitarian aid left Beijing yesterday afternoon bound for Medan in Indonesia.
The Ministry of Commerce said the material included medicine, food and electrical generators.
Wang Hanjiang, head of the ministry’s Foreign Aid Department, reported that China’s assistance to other tsunami-hit countries will be delivered within the next few days.
Shortly after the catastrophe struck, the Chinese government offered 21.63 million yuan in aid to the countries in the disaster area.
And last Friday, Premier Wen Jiabao added 500 million yuan to the effort.
Several Chinese relief and medical teams have left for Thailand and Indonesia to search for victims and treat the injured.
A team of 14 doctors left Beijing yesterday for Sri Lanka. The team is the third sent by China following one each from Shanghai and Guangdong.
The group is composed of medical workers from the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Beijing Friendship Hospital. It is made up of experts in epidemics, internal medicine and orthopedics.
Another medical team was expected to leave Beijing tomorrow.
The Hong Kong government said yesterday that deaths involving its residents may rise to six.
Deputy Secretary for Security Michael Wong said that 60 Hong Kong residents had lost contact with their families in Hong Kong, 49 fewer than the 109 reported on Saturday. Among the missing, 41 had been traveling in Thailand, one in Sri Lanka and seven in Indonesia.
Wong said that a 160-member government support team is in Thailand providing aid to Hong Kong people there.
No Chinese causalities have has been reported in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, the Chinese ambassador to Sri Lanka said yesterday.