Nearly 4,500 people are still missing - 3,916 in Nepal and 546 in China's Tibet.

Tunnel expert Arnold Dix says large underground areas may have sheltered workers from the devastation, as rescue work continues in hydropower sites.

Trump, eyeing a revived bond he claims to have with Kim, also said in August it was important to "get along" with the North Korean leader, adding that Pyongyang now had 57 "very powerful" nuclear weapons.

Top policy adviser Kim Yong-beom's resignation came a day after President Lee Jae Myung's administration announced a sweeping Cabinet reshuffle, including new finance and defence ministers, in an apparent bid to shore up its approval ratings.

Indonesia is battling fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra, with some areas in Borneo remaining blanketed by “hazardous” levels of haze.