Move follows direct request from Kathmandu, Beijing says, as more than 100 people remain trapped inside multiple hydropower tunnels in Nepal.

Search efforts have been expanded on both sides, with 484 tourists from at least 26 countries among those unaccounted for.

Nearly 1,500 people, including more than 700 foreigners, are missing across Nepal and China's Tibet, authorities said on Thursday, after a wall of mud and rock collapsed into a…

Death toll from disaster on border with China rises to more than 600