Taiwan has begun rationing water supplies to more than one million households as it tackles the island's worst drought in years.

Water supplies will be cut off entirely for two days each week, on a rotating basis, in several northern cities.
The shortage is due to reduced rainfall, leaving water levels in reservoirs far below capacity.
But a leaky delivery system, silt build-up in reservoirs and wastage are also being blamed.
Late last month, the government said the dry spell was forecast to continue.
"The water supply situation is urgent as Taiwan had the lowest rainfall last autumn and winter since 1947," the economics affairs ministry said.
"We may have delayed or no monsoon rains at all... We urge the public to co-operate during this difficult time."
The rationing is affecting New Taipei City, neighbouring Taoyuan City and Hsinchu County all in the north of the island. New Taipei surrounds the capital, Taipei, which remains unaffected.
Local media said the water level in Shihmen Reservoir, which supplies the northern area, was now at 24.56% of capacity, the lowest since it became operational in 1964.
Residents in affected areas have been advised to store water in advance to use for cooking, washing or flushing toilets.
Some 1,400 industrial users, including chemical and electronic components makers, are also affected. Some restrictions on water supply to industrial users have also been in place since last month.
But so far, production has not been affected because they either have stored supply in their own water towers, or have adjusted their manufacturing schedule, reports the BBC's Cindy Sui in Taipei.
Our correspondent says the water crisis is a wake-up call for Taiwan, where the cost of water is among the lowest in the world.
That has led to widespread wasting. The island's pipes are also decades old, leading to hundreds of millions of tonnes of water leaking each year.
Silt build-up in the reservoirs has also prevented more water being stored when there is rain.
The island's current and previous governments, and the state-owned water company, are being criticised for not doing enough to deal with this problem earlier, our correspondent adds.
The government is now offering incentives to promote conservation, including discounts for reduced use and subsidies for installing water-saving taps or toilets.
However, critics say water rates should rise to discourage wasting, but with presidential and legislative elections coming up next year, raising fees is something politicians dread.


When Boris Becker won his first Wimbledon title in 1985 he picked up a cheque for Â£130,000 ($200,000).

By the time he retired in 1999 - having won six Grand Slams, an Olympic Gold, and 49 titles, he had amassed winnings of Â£25m - and possibly an equal figure in sponsorship deals.
So why didn't he simply retire into a life of luxury, rather than spending his time and energy building up Brand Becker?
"For a couple of years, I wasn't doing anything. I had a difficult moment in my private life, I had a divorce, so I really had to settle down and start afresh," he recalls.
"But obviously, after just doing nothing, apart from playing golf and taking too many holidays, you get bored quickly and I felt that at 35 years of age there was a lot more I could ask from life on a professional level and there were so many things I wanted to do," he says.
He then began thinking about what talents he had and which people he wanted around him.
"One things leads to another and the next thing is that you have got an office, maybe two, and you are busy with all different things."
He points out how his father told him that he would not be a tennis player forever and that he had to invest his money wisely.
"He taught me that tennis could always be over tomorrow - you can break your leg, you can break your arm, you may lose motivation, but you still have a family, you still have to support everybody," he says.
"My father was originally an architect so my first love was real estate," he notes.
"Being on building sites from an early age I had a bit of an eye about what could be a potential nice apartment, a nice house, or especially a nice location - I think that's the key," he says.
In his mid-20s he started buying real estate: "I wouldn't say I turned my hobby into a profession," he laughs, "but if I like something I get it."
Mr Becker also opened up three Mercedes car dealerships and is now an ambassador for the brand.
But after a certain number of years the markets lose interest in an athlete and Mr Becker explains how he had to reinvent himself.
"I took my time, I think it is important to get rid of the idea that at 38 you can still play tennis," he says.
"Of course you can still play but you are not going to be competitive so you have to find something else.
"I wanted to try myself in different areas. I wanted to put my feet into the water and just try different things," he explains.
He points out that not everything has worked and that: "A business or two has failed."
It has been widely reported that he received a two-year suspended sentence in Germany over tax-related issues, and that his property in Majorca was at the heart of a legal row over non-payment of bills, but the most notable failure in his real estate ventures was the Becker Tower in Dubai - something he particularly regrets.
"I gave them my name which is everything I have, but I was not responsible for the financing of the building.
"When the bubble called Dubai burst, the business of the tower went down as well. I wouldn't say that I was responsible but the business didn't work and it was not good," he muses.
"With the tower I only gave my name and let the builders do the work, but I have tested most of the tennis racquets which bear my name," he says.
More importantly, he is involved with the marketing of the racquets.
"I have an understanding of what sports marketing and branding is all about, so I feel that I can bring a few things to the table that a normal investor wouldn't know about," he asserts.
The failure of the Becker Tower has left him more cautious and for that reason, he does not invest in the stock market.
"I don't understand it enough and I don't want some 25-year-old explaining something to me that he's not sure about himself the next day," he says.
"The last thing I want is to invest my money again in a risky business," he notes, "I prefer real estate, with long-term slow growth but, in 10 or 15 years, I can smile about it."
With most of his projects bearing fruit, he says: "I'm 45 years old now and I'm comfortable in my second career."
When asked when he might consider retiring, he scoffs at the idea.
"Retire into what? I love what I do. I don't get up in the morning and say I hate my job, I don't want to go to the office," he says.
"I really love what I do. I had moments when I was really bored and that's not a good feeling," he reflects.
"I'm happy. I'm in a good place now and I can't imagine not working ever," he adds.


A Perth drug dealer who made almost £20,000 by selling heroin through his letterbox has been jailed for 33 months.

A court heard Roy Green fed his own habit by selling the drug to a steady stream of visitors to his close.
Green, 58, told police he was able to make £350 a week for a year without leaving his home.
He admitted at Perth Sheriff Court to being concerned in the supply of heroin.
Depute fiscal Gavin Letford told Perth Sheriff Court: "He was resident at Watergate with his partner.
"Police received intelligence that the accused was involved in the supply of controlled drugs.
"He was dealing drugs through the letterbox and there were a number of customers at the door daily to buy heroin.
"A number of people were arrested nearby."
One of the addicts said he had been visiting Green's home every day for two months to purchase heroin.
Green told police officers he had been dealing drugs for months and would make around £100 every two days.
Solicitor Cliff Culley, defending, said: "He was supplying to pay for his own habit.
"He wasn't living a life of luxury. He has a number of physical ailments."
Green, now of Feus Road, Perth was jailed for 33 months by Sheriff Fiona Tait.
Sheriff Tait said: "I acknowledge the physical disabilities which you have.
"However, you have pled guilty to the supply of heroin over a period of one year."


At least 12,000 affordable homes need to be built in Scotland each year for the next five years, according to three leading housing organisations.

The figure is double what is currently being provided.
Undertaking such a programme would cost Â£700m a year, experts commissioned to look into the issue found.
Housing charity Shelter has urged all political parties to pledge to meet the 12,000 homes target in their Holyrood election manifestos.
The Scottish government currently has a target of building 6,000 affordable homes per year.
A report - Affordable Housing Need in Scotland - was carried out by a team from the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam, Sheffield University and the University of St Andrews.
It was commissioned by Shelter Scotland, the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) Scotland and the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA).
The independent report - which claims to be the first in-depth investigation into Scotland's total housing need for 10 years - calls for the biggest house building programme since the 1970s.
The Scottish government is to consider the report but said it is "already delivering a huge boost to affordable housing provision", with 30,000 properties to be completed by the end of the life of the current parliament in 2016.
Graeme Brown, director of Shelter Scotland, said: "The 12,000-a-year target for new affordable homes is the minimum level required to tackle Scotland's housing crisis.
"We are calling on all political parties in Scotland to acknowledge there is a crisis by making the building of new affordable homes a priority in their manifestos for the forthcoming Holyrood elections and use the 12,000 target as a benchmark for their ambitions.
"Politics is about making choices and we have simply got to do more to reduce homelessness in Scotland."
SFHA chief executive Mary Taylor said: "The research provides evidence of the scale of need. Scottish ministers are already considering recommendations from the subsidy review group earlier this summer which showed a need for increased subsidy."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "We are working closely with all sectors to promote the construction of new homes, support jobs in the construction industry and inclusive growth in the wider economy."


Svetlana Alexievich - this year's Nobel laureate for literature - says her approach is to let "human voices speak for themselves".

She first came to prominence in 1985 when, as a 37-year-old journalist in the Soviet Union, she published her first documentary book: War's Unwomanly Face.
It is an oral history of ordinary Belarusian women who fought in World War Two.
Belarus was still very much in the grip of communist officialdom, intensified by the pomposity of celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. The tone of her book - poignant, human, touching - came as a complete shock.
That book defined her style for years to come.
Fortunately her success coincided with the refreshing, revolutionising effect of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms in the late 1980s. The then Soviet leader promoted "glasnost" (openness) and "perestroika" (restructuring).
Alexievich had been mentioned as a possible Nobel laureate for years, even though internationally she is much less known than competitors such as Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates and Haruki Murakami.
Yet the announcement was unexpected and unusual. She is the 14th woman to have got the award, but more importantly she works in a non-fiction genre, which emerged from her work as a journalist.
Traditionally the Nobel Literature Prize has celebrated artistic endeavour - purely literary or "ideal" values, as Alfred Nobel intended.
The only other non-fiction writers awarded the prize were Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell. Even Alexander Solzhenitsyn won it as much, if not more, for his fiction.
After War's Unwomanly Face she tackled themes that were taboo in the Soviet period. Zinky Boys (1989) was about the savage war in Afghanistan, and Voices from Chernobyl (1997) was about the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine. The books were translated and turned her into a symbol of changing political realities in the former USSR.
She remained true to her documentary style, and it was that multitude of voices that persuaded the Nobel Committee to honour her "polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".
Despite her fame in post-Soviet Russia and abroad, Alexievich inevitably fell out with the authoritarian regime of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.
A political dissident and opponent of the regime, she left her homeland in 2000, moved to Germany and France, and returned to Minsk only in 2011.
She has no illusions about the nature of political power in post-Soviet countries.
"I love the Russian world, but the kind, humane Russian world," she added, talking of Russia under President Vladimir Putin.
"I do not love Beria, Stalin, Putin... how low they let Russia sink," she said - reflecting on Mr Putin's ruthless Soviet predecessors.
"Dictator Putin and dictator Lukashenko both have mandates from their societies, they are the concentrated desire of the people, which means that society is at that particular stage in its development," she said during the launch of her latest book, Second-hand Time.
So her Nobel success is a bit awkward not only for Mr Lukashenko but also for Mr Putin.
It is an enormous honour for the small Belarus nation, which has never been anywhere near such international literary recognition before.
She is only the sixth Russian-language writer to win the world's top literary prize - after Ivan Bunin, Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky.


The proportion of UK households where no adult aged 16 to 64 is in work is at its lowest since comparable records began in 1996, official figures show.

The Office for National Statistics said there were 3.5 million such households in the UK between April and June this year, about 17.1% of all households including a working age adult.
This was down from 3.7 million, or 17.9%, a year earlier.
The highest percentage of workless households was in north-east England.
Some 23% of households including a working age adult were workless in the region. The lowest was in south-east England, where 13% of households were in this category.
Workless households are defined as homes where no-one aged from 16 to 64 is in employment. This could be because they are looking for work, or they have chosen not to work, or they are unable to work.
People may choose not to work because of family commitments, early retirement or study. They may be unable to work because of sickness or disability.
The data shows that the number of workless households in the UK dropped by 182,000 over the year.
This means that 4.9 million people aged 16 to 64 lived in workless households. The ONS said this was the first time the figure had dropped below five million since 2008.
Some 14% of all children in the UK, or 1.6 million, were living in these households. About two-thirds of them were in single-parent households.
Children's charities - Barnardo's and The Children's Society - said they welcomed the fact that the number of children living in workless households was falling.
However, a move into work did not necessarily mean a move out of poverty, they argued.
They said it was imperative for the government to reduce childcare costs for families on low incomes.
The proportion of workless households was at its highest in 1996, when comparable records began, when it stood at 20.9% in the UK. This fell steadily to 17.3% in 2006 before rising to 19.2% in 2010. It has fallen relatively sharply in the past three years.
In 2013, there were 297,000 households in which no adult has ever worked, down 43,000 on the previous year. If student households are excluded, this figure drops to 224,000.
Mark Hoban, the Minister for Employment, said: "Helping people off benefits and into work is one of this government's top priorities, so it is good news that the number of workless households has fallen by more than 425,000 since the coalition took office.
"By reforming the welfare system to ensure that people are better off in work than on benefits, and through schemes such as the Work Programme and Youth Contract we are giving people the support they need to get a job and fulfil their aspirations of looking after themselves and their families."
Stephen Timms, Labour's shadow employment minister, said: "Any fall in worklessness is welcome, but the truth is Britain's unemployment crisis is far from over.
"Underemployment is at record highs, long-term unemployment is at its highest level for 17 years, the number of young people out of work is edging back towards a million, and millions are working harder for less. It is becoming harder and harder for millions to make ends meet."


Worldwide, around a billion people have a disability, says the World Health Organisation.

In Europe and America, this is one in five people. And since they are less likely to be in work, their poverty rate is about twice as high.
So technologies that could help disabled people contribute more in the workplace - and improve their quality of life - are surely welcome.
And it also makes good business sense.
If a million more disabled people could work, the UK economy alone would grow 1.7%, or Â£45bn ($64bn), says disability charity Scope.
Motor neuron disease affects 400,000 people worldwide, including renowned scientist Professor Stephen Hawking. Multiple sclerosis affects 2.3 million.
But neurons controlling eye movement are more resistant to degenerative diseases. This is also true of other parts of the face, like the cheek, which Prof Hawking uses to communicate.
US company LC Technologies has invented a device that enables people to control a computer using just their eyes.
Eyegaze Edge is the latest invention of the company, which was founded in 1988 by a group of engineers in a basement.
It solved the basic scientific problems then, but the early device was cumbersome and very expensive.
"We crammed it in back of a single-engine plane and took it around to towns where there was a need," says medical director Nancy Cleveland.
"Now, it fits in a suitcase in a commercial aircraft."
The technology behind Eyegaze is called Pupil Centre/Corneal Reflection, or PCCR. A tablet is set up in front of the user, with a small video camera underneath. A near-infrared LED (light-emitting diode) light illuminates the user's eye.
The camera then measures the distance between the centre of your pupil and the reflection of LED light on your cornea - the transparent bit of your eye at the front.
This tiny distance shifts as your gaze changes, and this enables a computer to work out exactly where you're looking.
"People have done all kinds of interesting jobs," says Ms Cleveland, "and all they had was the ability to move their eyes."
She says about 12 books have been written using the device.
A similar device is the HeadMouse Nano, recently developed by Texas-based Origin Instruments.
A camera tracks the movements of a reflective dot stuck to the user's forehead, and these motions control a computer cursor.
Selections are made using a "sip-puff" switch in the mouth, or by dwell time - how long the head stays in a certain position.
It requires slightly more motor ability in its users, but is cheaper.
"Lately, we've reduced size and power consumption," says Origin's vice president Mel Dashner, who worked on tracking devices for aircraft during the Cold War. "We're mainly riding the wave of cell phone technology like everybody else."
There are about 39 million blind people in the world, according to the World Health Organisation. But 90% have at least some level of light perception.
So Stephen Hicks, a neuroscientist at Oxford University, has developed "smart glasses" that accentuate the contrast between light and dark objects.
"We try to represent the world in simple and unambiguous real-time images," he says.
The nearest image is bright, whereas the rest of the field is black, and the the contrast between them is cranked up to maximum.
Mr Hicks started working on the glasses in 2010, with tech firm Epson providing the see-through computer displays.
He has since had additional help from the Royal National Institute for the Blind, and prize money from a Google Impact Challenge award.
The biggest challenge for him has been in keeping the weight down - if the glasses weigh more than 120g (4.2oz) wearers get headaches, he says.
So he has put the battery and processing unit into a handset, connected to the glasses by a small cable.
Technology can even help the 1.5 million people in the world who are deaf and blind. Helen Keller, most famously, was the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree in 1904.
Deafblind people can communicate using tactical alphabets - pressing or pinching different parts of the hand represents different letters.
Now Nicholas Caporusso, from Bari in southern Italy, has developed a way of turning these movements and touches into electronic signals via a special glove.
Sensors in his dbGLOVE turn these alphabet tracings into computer text, and actuators trace the letters back onto the hand. This will enable deafblind people to operate computers and smartphones.
Mr Caporusso hopes the final device, which was developed with two partners from Finland - where Nokia has left a legacy of mobile phone inventiveness - will be ready early this year.
"The perfect match of Italian design and Finnish technology," Mr Caporusso calls it.
The biggest challenge was size, he says, as it is with many of these assistive technologies: "All these cables, actuators, and sensors are in a very small space."
Advances in 3D printing and bio-electronics are also helping replace missing limbs with prosthetics and give disabled people extra functionality.
For example, in 2014, Ontario-based Thalmic Labs released an armband called the Myo. It enables a person to control computer devices by reading the electricity produced by their skeletal muscles and then sending these signals wirelessly via Bluetooth to the device.
In December 2015, researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore adapted this armband to control a prosthetic limb.
Thalmic's chief executive, Stephen Lake, says Myo "slides right on the arm, with no surgery or skin prep, and provides much more reliable signals than you can get with electrodes."
The technology was originally developed to facilitate gesture-controlled presentations and has been used by DJs to control lighting displays.
And if such assistive technology can be used by non-disabled people, too, it can be made more cheaply to the benefit of all.


A 19-year-old student has died after being hit by a car in Sandwell.

Charlie Heywood, from Great Barr, was walking along Birmingham Road near Barhill Close at about 03:35 BST when he was knocked down.
In tribute, his family described him as an "endlessly kind young man and a much loved son, brother and grandson".
A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence of drugs, West Midlands Police said.
Passers-by stopped to help Mr Heywood but, despite their efforts and the intervention of paramedics, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The University College London history undergraduate was the eldest of four brothers.


Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has said he will abide by a court ruling to hold elections by the end of July.

Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court said on Friday that elections must be held by 31 July, and that Mr Mugabe should set a date "as soon as possible".
Mr Mugabe has been in coalition with the former opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai since 2009.
Mr Tsvangirai's party has said it is ready for "free and fair elections".
The Movement for Democratic Change says it has no problem with July elections, as long as its demands for reforms to voter registration and Zimbabwe's media are met.
According to the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), Mr Mugabe said he would comply with the court's decision and would set a date for elections after consulting with the Minister of Justice and Legal affairs.
A new constitution, backed by the main parties and approved in a referendum in March, was signed into law in May.
The MDC had called for the elections to be held later this year, so that changes in the new constitution could be implemented.
Mr Mugabe, who is 89, has led Zimbabwe since 1980.
He is likely to face Mr Tsvangirai in the presidential poll.
The coalition government has helped end hyperinflation that saw Zimbabwe's economy collapse, but the administration has been fraught with squabbles over introducing reforms.
The ZBC quoted Mr Mugabe as saying the coalition government had "outlived its usefulness".
Five years ago, Mr Tsvangirai won the most votes in the first round of the presidential election but, according to official results, not enough to win outright.
He pulled out of the second round, saying his supporters were being targeted in a campaign of violence.
After Mr Mugabe went ahead with the election, winning with 85% of votes cast, regional mediators intervened to organise a power-sharing agreement.
The president, who was speaking on a trip to Japan for a summit, said he would not step down in response to calls from other countries.
"I've thought about retirement, but not when the British are saying we want regime change," Mr Mugabe told Japan's Kyodo news agency.
"I won't be changed by the British. My people will change me."


Two people have died and a woman has been critically injured in a stabbing at a flat in Wolverhampton.

Police said it was believed a man attacked two women before inflicting stab injuries on himself.
Stun grenades were used as officers stormed the block of flats in Leasowes Drive, Penn, at about 09:45 GMT.
A woman and the male suspect, both believed to be in their 30s, died at the scene, West Midlands Police confirmed.
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Officers said the stabbing was a domestic-related incident.
Stun grenades were used as officers stormed the flat in a bid to distract and detain the knifeman, West Midlands Police said.
They said the other woman, believed to be in her 50s, had been taken to hospital with critical stomach wounds, and two police officers were also injured.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said the second woman was taken "to the major trauma centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham with potentially life-threatening stab wounds".
Armed officers could be seen outside the Highfield Court block of flats.
Supt Keith Fraser, from West Midlands Police, said unarmed officers who had entered the property to protect people inside were confronted by a man with a knife and they "deployed their Taser, which was initially ineffective".
He said armed officers had "then been requested to support the unarmed officers" and they "have used stun grenades to distract the armed man".
But the stun grenades were "ineffective we believe in relation to trying to stop this man from attacking officers".
One officer received a "stab wound to the arm" and the other sustained a leg injury after being chased by the suspect, Supt Fraser said.
"I want to stress that the man was armed so we had to act quickly and officers did that."
Mick Brice, a taxi driver, was near the scene when he said he saw "12 or 14 police cars".
A "paramilitary-style" police vehicle came "screaming down the road" and on to the scene, Mr Brice said, before he saw two officers take something out of the back and enter the flats.


Mo Farah will face tough opposition in the IAAF/Cardiff University World Half Marathon after two notable entries into the field.

Double 2012 Olympic champion Farah will go head-to-head with Zersenay Tadese, the half marathon world record holder for the past six years.
Kenya's reigning world champion Geoffrey Kamworor will also defend his title in Cardiff on Saturday, 26 March.
Kamworor has said he is targeting a new world record time in Cardiff.
Farah, 32, is looking to win his eighth global title.
He beat Kamworor to the gold medal over 10,000 metres at the World Championships in Beijing last year.
Kamworor is the fourth fastest athlete of all-time over the half marathon distance.


The mother of a girl shot twice in the head by her father on the doorstep of a Sussex safe house told an inquest the killing was an "act of revenge".

Seven-year-old Mary Shipstone was attacked in the village of Northiam. She died the next day.
Her mother, Lyndsey Shipstone said of her estranged husband Yasser Alromisse: "I was the one he hated the most."
The coroner recorded a verdict of unlawful killing for Mary and suicide for Alromisse who shot himself.
The joint Hastings inquest followed the shooting of both Mary and her 46-year-old father, on 11 September last year.
Ms Shipstone said: "Why did he kill Mary? I don't think I will ever really know that.
"He wanted to kill himself and for some reason he thought she shouldn't live without him.
"It was an act of revenge really. It has got to be.
"If he really loved her, he never would have murdered her."
Ms Shipstone had moved to Northiam with her daughter following a separation from her husband after being the victim of domestic violence.
The attack happened as Mary returned home from school with her mother to Spring Hill, a safe house where the pair had lived for the past year.
Ms Shipstone told the court: "I was putting my key in the door, and I spoke to Mary, saying she'd like what I had done to her room, and that's the last thing I said to her.
"There was a terrific sound behind me like someone had burst a balloon.
"I turned around and the first thing I saw was Mary on the ground - her legs were crumpled behind her."
She added: "I started screaming she'd been shot. She was breathing. Her jaw was clenched."
The inquest heard how Alromisse had hired private detective Paul Parton in a bid to find the woman he was still legally married to, purporting to be a friend of hers.
Mr Parton was unable to find Ms Shipstone and later withdrew his services, concerned that Alromisse's motive was to take away the child.
East Sussex coroner Alan Craze said it was not clear how Alromisse found the address, but he described the murder as a "thoroughly despicable act of violence".
The coroner also said the shooting was not in any way spontaneous, but premeditated over a long period of time.
Alromisse was hidden in the back of a silver Toyota on the drive by the house when he fired the shots.
The car windows were tinted and he had created a blind from bin bags to shield himself.
Later, his body was found in a pool of blood in the back of the car, where he had shot himself in the head.


The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (Fufa) has said that it is working on clearing the salary arrears owed to the national team coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic.

Sredojevic, who on Sunday lead the Cranes to their first Africa Cup of Nations finals since 1978, complained on social media about not being paid.
Fufa admits it owes the coach and says paying him is a priority.
The association added it is meeting with the coach to resolve the issues.
Fufa also explained that much of its recent income had been used to ensure the "the success of the team" in their final must-win Nations Cup qualifier against Comoros.
The statement continued: "Fufa is committed to ensuring all his salary arrears are cleared and we are confident this will be handled."
The coach has also said that he is prepared to take the matter to football's world governing body Fifa if necessary.


An American salmon supplier has been fined and given probation for falsely claiming its fish was from Scotland when it had been imported from Chile.

US prosecutors said it was sold under the award-winning St James Smokehouse brand, run from Annan in Dumfriesshire and Miami.
UpRiver Aquaculture, also known as MKG Provisions, pleaded guilty to violating a US law on false labelling of food.
It was fined Â£34,000, with three years of probation.
Court papers stated that it was supplying St James Smokehouse, though that client was not charged.
St James Smokehouse has won many awards for the quality of its products and for exporting, as well as a European grant for its Scottish processing plant.
Prosecutors did not publish evidence that the Smokehouse company knew that MKG had sourced its fish from Chile. However, it raises questions of whether it did enough to ensure the quality and legality of its branded products.
The offence took place in December 2012, when MKG took delivery of 286 cases of Chilean farmed salmon.
The US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida issued a statement explaining: "MKG, acting through its employees and in connection with its business relationship with a client, St. James Smokehouse Inc, processed, smoked, and repackaged the salmon into bags provided to MKG by St James Smokehouse, which identified the salmon as a product of Scotland.
"The falsely labelled salmon was intended for wholesale distribution and sale by St James Smokehouse and was eventually sold to consumers through various retailers to which St James Smokehouse had sold the salmon."
The probation, which accompanies the $50,000 fine, is to "serve to provide oversight of the company's implementation of a government-required compliance plan to prevent a recurrence of the offence".
St James Smokehouse sells premium Scottish produce in Europe, the US and the Middle East. Its website emphasises the provenance of its salmon, and its many awards.
The packaging currently on sale in the US states: "This premium quality Scottish smoked salmon has been freshly crafted in Scotland, following a traditional family recipe".
Five months after the offence occurred in Florida, St James Smokehouse was successful in the Scottish Food and Drink Awards, its president picking up trophies as Scottish Food and Drink Entrepreneur, Business of the Year and Exporter of the Year at the awards in Edinburgh. In 2011, ahead of the offence, it had won best new retail product at the International Boston Seafood Show.
Brendan James Maher, who founded the firm in 2003, was quoted in Business Quarter magazine published six months before the offence involving Chilean fish, saying: "I saw a massive opportunity for us in North America quite early on.
"There's a huge demand for smoked salmon there, and a perception that anything 'Scottish' is superior, but what you had was US domestic smokers buying it in from Chile, smoking it and sticking it in a bag with a bit of tartan on it. The quality just wasn't there, so I decided to start knocking on doors."
He went on: "There was a gaping hole in the US market for a genuine Scottish product. We were confident we could fill that void.
"St James Smokehouse is now the most successful Scottish smoked salmon brand in the USA. It hasn't been easy, but we're now supplying the likes of Whole Foods Market, Mandarin Oriental hotel group and Kings".
Mr Maher set up his business in Annan, having moved north from Liverpool. He took over the Dumfriesshire plant which had previously been run by Pinneys of Scotland, part of Young's Seafood, and won a Â£210,000 grant from the European Fisheries Fund. He now lives in Miami.
Mr Maher told BBC Scotland: "We have worked entirely in accordance with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in this matter and have provided all information requested.
"In early 2013, we made the decision to locate and purchase 2.5 acres of land in central Miami, Florida, investing $5.5m to construct our own smokehouse in the USA.
"After two years of construction, the smokehouse was completed at the end of 2015 and we now have the newest state of the art smoking facility in North America.
"St James Smokehouse now has approximately over 100 full time employees in the US and Scotland collectively.
"Our purchasing department has sole responsibility for the procurement of every single ingredient and component in production of all products.
"Our dedicated team of craftsmen employ time honoured, traditional methods to create our artisanal products under the watchful eye of our master smoker and are reinforced by our quality team, food safety and laboratory managers ensuring strict HACCP compliance in food safety, quality, consistency and traceability."


Serena Williams was thrilled to win a record 23rd Grand Slam title at the Australian Open but would not speculate on how many more she could secure.

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The American, 35, beat sister Venus 6-4 6-4 to overtake Steffi Graf in the list of Open-era major champions.
She is now just one behind Australia's Margaret Court in terms of all-time Grand Slam singles victories.
"I never had a number. That's the beauty of it," said Williams, who won her first major at the 1999 US Open.
"When I started this journey, I just wanted to win a Grand Slam.
"Then I just wanted to win. Every time I step on the court, I want to win. It's just really remarkable."
Williams drew level with Germany's Graf on 22 major singles titles at last year's Wimbledon, but then lost in the semi-finals of the US Open.
She won her seventh Australian Open title without dropping a set in Melbourne.
"It's such a great feeling to have 23," she said. "It really feels great.
"I've been chasing it for a really long time. When it got on my radar, I knew I had an opportunity to get there, and I'm here.
"It's a great feeling. No better place to do it than Melbourne."
The experience was all the more special because it was shared with Venus, who at 36 was making her first Grand Slam final appearance since 2009.
The sisters became the oldest women to appear in a major final since the Grand Slams accepted professional players in 1968.
"We're both, like I say, 30-fun," Serena joked. "Now I just feel like I'm satisfied with where I am, although I always want to win."
As well as the title, Serena regained the world number one ranking from Germany's Angelique Kerber - but she did not know that was on the line as her coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, kept it from her.
"That was a bonus. I didn't know actually. It feels good. I like being on top, so I really like that feeling," she said.
"In the beginning of the tournament, I was like, 'If I win, will I be number one?' Patrick said, 'No, no, no.'
"Today on the court when they were like, 'And number one', I was like, 'Whoa, really?'"
After reaching her first Grand Slam final since 2009, Venus Williams will head into the rest of the season in confident mood.
She will rise from 17th to 11th in the world rankings after her run to the final in Melbourne.
"Ready to kill it this year," she said. "That's my goal. It's a great start to the year. I'm looking forward to the rest of year.
"This is like tournament number two and it's already a lot of work. I'm looking forward to tournament number three and four. It's going to be awesome."
Venus, who has had to cope with auto-immune disease Sjogren's syndrome in recent years, played down the suggestion she and Serena are the greatest sporting siblings of all time.
"I don't think we're going for the greatest story in sports," she said.
"We're just going for some dreams. In the case that we are, what an honour, what an honour."


England's hopes of defending their EuroHockey title were thwarted at the semi-final stage as Marloes Keetels' strike sent hosts Netherlands through.

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Keetels, a member of the victorious 2014 World Cup team, fired low past Maddie Hinch in the fourth quarter after two shots had been blocked.
England won several penalty corners, but were frustrated by a resilient Dutch defence.
Alex Danson did go close though with a shot saved by keeper Anne Veenendaal.
Danson's team-mate Sophie Bray also went agonisingly close to scoring as she failed to convert Zoe Shipperley' low driven pass.
Keetels said: "It was amazing. I'm so happy. The English attacked and defended well.
"We are enjoying the pressure. The crowd is all orange so it feels like an extra player on the field."
The home nation will play neighbours Belgium in Saturday's final. England will take on Germany for the bronze medal prior to that match.
England play Netherlands again, this time in the men's semi-finals on Friday (19:00 BST).


Russian President Vladimir Putin has begun a two-day state visit to China with a major gas supply deal high on the agenda.

A price for the Russian gas was not agreed on Tuesday, but analysts say a deal could still be struck before Mr Putin leaves China on Wednesday.
Mr Putin described China as a reliable friend and Russia's leading foreign trading partner.
It is his first visit to China since President Xi Jinping took office.
The state visit comes as China hosts a key summit of Asian states in Shanghai that includes delegates from nearly 40 countries and international organisations.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is attending, as are the leaders of Iran, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Cambodia. President Xi is expected to make announcements on security in Asia at the summit.
The welcoming ceremony for President Putin was full of upbeat language. He described China as a reliable friend and Xi Jinping promised strategic co-operation.
To underline the point, there were joint naval exercises. But the Russians had raised expectations of the signing of a lucrative 30-year deal to supply natural gas to China. The energy giant Gazprom said they were incredibly close to agreement but clearly the Chinese are driving a hard bargain on price.
The government in Beijing is well aware that after the chill in relations with Europe that followed the Ukraine crisis, Moscow needs to stop depending on the west for 80% of its energy sales. And China does need more and cleaner energy.
But a long history of falling into and out of alliances with Moscow has taught Beijing to keep a hard-nosed focus on its own national interest. It knows Russia needs a friend in the East and it is extracting maximum advantage.
In an interview with Chinese media before his arrival, Mr Putin called China "Russia's reliable friend" and said the two countries had reached a new stage in bilateral and military ties.
"It would be no exaggeration if I said that the co-operation between our two countries is at its highest level in history," the Russian leader said.
Russia and China have also kicked off a joint military exercise involving their navies.
China is Russia's largest single trading partner, with bilateral trade flows of $90bn (Â£53bn) in 2013, and the two neighbours aim to double the volume to $200bn by the end of the decade, according to agencies.
Expectations are high that the visit would seal a contract under which Russia's state-owned Gazprom would supply China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) with natural gas for the next 30 years.
Russia has faced international condemnation for its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. Russia has also deployed troops near the border of Ukraine, sparking concerns about a possible invasion.
For its part, China has attracted criticism for recent actions in the South China Sea.
China's refusal to move an oil rig stationed in waters claimed by Hanoi sparked an outbreak of protests across Vietnam last week, with demonstrators targeting Chinese workers and Chinese-owned factories. At least two deaths have been reported.
The Philippines has also accused China of building an airstrip on the disputed Johnson Reef.


About 57,000 people have taken part in the Great North Run, which saw Mo Farah win the men's elite race.

The event began in Newcastle with the finish line 13.1 miles away in South Shields.
Farah's victory was his second consecutive win in the half-marathon, which is now in its 35th year.
Kenyan Mary Keitany won the women's race and David Weir achieved a record-equalling sixth win in the elite wheelchair competition.
Shelly Woods took the women's wheelchair crown for the seventh time.
Farah, 32, who last month retained both his 10,000m and 5,000m world crowns in Beijing, became the second British man to win the event twice as he crossed the line ahead of Kenya's Stanley Biwott.
It matched the achievement of Mike McLeod, the winner in 1981 and 1982.
He said: "It took a lot out of me. The crowd always give massive support.
"If it wasn't for the crowd edging me towards the end it definitely would have been a different result."
Taking a break from running, British distance athlete Jo Pavey fired the starting pistol.
As is traditional, the Red Arrows performed a fly-over as runners crossed the Tyne Bridge on their way into Gateshead.
A number of stars once again featured in the mass event including Professor Brian Cox, Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell and former footballers Michael Gray and Kevin Kilbane.
Cracknell told the BBC's Gabby Logan: "I haven't run for four or five weeks and I may not be the most efficient runner. I see Mo only just pipped me by about half an hour!
"I saw him at the hotel yesterday morning and he had a go at me for eating too much.
"This is special because people come and watch a family member or a friend, and they stay and support everyone else."
It is expected around Â£25m will be raised by those taking part for charity.
BBC Breakfast presenter Steph McGovern, who is from Middlesbrough, said: "For the first time ever I ran it without headphones on and the crowd carries you along.
"It was tough in terms of the heat, but Newcastle looked brilliant. It was hard, but great fun."


Children from poorer homes in England are nearly half as likely to attend an outstanding primary school as richer children, research finds.

Only 15% of children from the poorest 30% of families currently go to outstanding primary schools, a study by education charity Teach First suggests.
This compares to 27% of children from the richest 30% of families who attend a school rated highly by inspectors.
The government says it is making more good school places available.
The research is published as parents in England prepare to hear on Tuesday which primary school their child has been allocated.
The study, by education charity Teach First, analysed official data on income deprivation, known as IDACI, and information from Ofsted inspections.
The results suggest the lowest-income families were also twice as likely to have a child at a primary school rated by Ofsted inspectors as "requires improvement" or "inadequate".
In total, 11% of children in these families currently attend a struggling primary school, compared to just 6% of the richest ones.
Teach First noted that this situation continued into secondary school, with the percentage of the lowest-income children going on to a secondary school rated "as requires improvement" or "inadequate" by Ofsted  standing at 24%.
This compares to 10% of children from the wealthiest families.
Brett Wigdortz, chief executive and founder of Teach First, said: "These figures show that social mobility remains a serious issue in our country.
"We know that all families care about giving their children the best possible start in life, but as outstanding schools are unfairly concentrated in richer communities, poorer families are finding themselves priced out.
"As a society we must challenge the idea that where a child is from, or how rich their parents are, determines whether they get access to an outstanding education.
"We must work towards a future where opportunities are available for all, in order to create a country that works for everyone".
A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: "There are 1.8 million more children in good or outstanding schools than 2010.
"We have created almost 735,000 extra school places since 2010, with 92% of new primary school places built in 2015-16 created in good or outstanding schools.
"This has meant that last year 96.3% of parents in England received an offer at one of their top three preferred primary schools."
But she acknowledged there was more to be done.
"We have already set out plans to make more good school places available - including scrapping the ban on new grammar school places, and harnessing the resources and expertise of universities, independent and faith schools."


The number of people dying in fire-related incidents in England has seen its biggest percentage increase in 20 years.

Data published by the Home Office shows 303 people died in fires in 2015-16, a 15% increase on the previous 12 months.
Fire services in Cambridgeshire and Cumbria had the highest fatality rates.
Fire Service Minister Brandon Lewis said there had been "a long term downward trend" in fire deaths.
The figures show that in 2015-16 fire services across England attended around 162,000 fires - an increase of 7,000 from the previous year.
From these incidents, fire services recorded 303 fire-related fatalities, which is 39 more than in the previous 12 months.
The number of people dying in fires across England had been steadily falling over the past three decades, with the number of fire related fatalities being 22% lower than in 2005-06.
The Home Office says the rise in the number of deaths is due to an increase in the number of accidental fires taking place in people's homes, along with an increase in the number of fatal fires involving aircraft. The Shoreham air show disaster in 2015 led to 11 such fire related deaths.
The BBC has also found that there are wide geographical variations in the fatality rate for primary fires, which are classed as being the most serious kind.
Last year, the fire and rescue services in Cambridgeshire and Cumbria had the highest fatality rates with 25 deaths occurring for every 1,000 primary fires.
In comparison, the England average was seven deaths per 1,000 fires.
Cameron Matthews, the Secretary of the Cambridge Fire Brigade's Union, described the figures as "heartbreaking".
"Its just not right that we now in effect have a postcode lottery.
"Here in Cambridgeshire we've had some of the highest percentage cuts in the country to our budget. We've lost experienced firefighters and it is quite clear that the government's cuts are now resulting in lives being lost."
A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "We have not made any cuts impacting on our frontline service to date and so no correlation can be made.
"The number of fire deaths does fluctuate year on year but always remains in low single figures. We have the fifth lowest number of dwelling fires in the country out of all fire and rescue services and that is a good, positive story."
Data compiled by the Department for Communities and Local Government in 2015 showed that the number of firefighters across England had fallen by 14.7% over the previous decade whilst fire service response times had also risen over the past six years.
The Home Office strongly refuted the claim that the rise in fire-related deaths is attributable to cuts in funding.
Brandon Lewis, Minister for Policing and the Fire Service said any death in a fire was a "tragedy".
He said: "There has been a long term downward trend in both fires and fire deaths for many years, recently reaching historically low levels."


Four pedestrians were injured as they were hit by a car in a Hull street.

Police said the incident happened at the junction of Beverley Road and Eldon Grove at 03:45 GMT.
A BMW car hit the four people before coming to a stop. All the pedestrians were hurt, with one suffering serious injuries, police said.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving as well as driving while under the influence of drink or drugs.


President Obama has called climate change "a serious threat to global security" and heavily criticised climate change deniers.

In his strongest remarks on the issue yet, Mr Obama said climate change would "impact every country on the planet".
The US president made his comments in a speech to students at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut.
He has previously identified climate change as a central issue for the remainder of his time in office.
Faced with strong opposition on the issue from Republicans and industry, Mr Obama used his speech to frame the threat in terms of national security.
He said: "I'm here today to say that climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security and make no mistake: it will impact how our military defends our country.
"Denying it or refusing to deal with it endangers our national security. It undermines the readiness of our forces."
He went on to list specific military facilities seen as under threat from adverse weather conditions.
"Around Norfolk, high tides and storms increasingly flood parts of our Navy base and an air base. In Alaska, thawing permafrost is damaging military facilities.
"Out West, deeper droughts and longer wildfires could threaten training areas our troops depend on."
He told the Coast Guard Academy students: "You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us.
"Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long term."
Mr Obama has used executive orders on climate change to circumvent opposition in Congress - issuing one in March ordering federal agencies to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
In China last year, he committed to reducing US carbon emissions by 26-28% by 2025, and he will travel  to Paris in December for an international summit on greenhouse gases.


US golfer Arnold Palmer, viewed as one of the greatest and most influential players in the sport's history, has died at the age of 87.

Palmer died at the UPMC Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was undergoing heart tests, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
During a long career he won more than 90 tournaments worldwide, including seven majors.
The US Golf Association called him "golf's greatest ambassador".
As tributes flooded in from across the world of golf, Tiger Woods tweeted: "Thanks Arnold for your friendship, counsel and a lot of laughs. Your philanthropy and humility are part of your legend."
Palmer attracted thousands of diehard fans known as "Arnie's army" and helped to promote the game into the television age.
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The golfer was loved as an everyman superstar, and even had a drink named after him - the Arnold Palmer cocktail, made from one part iced tea and one part lemonade.
He also gave his name to a professional tournament - The Arnold Palmer Invitational, held each March at his private golf resort in Bay Hill, Florida.
Arnold Palmer was the most important golfer to play the game, says the BBC's golf correspondent Iain Carter.
"His force of charisma put the game on the map and it never dimmed", he added.
Fellow golfing great and a close friend of Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, said he would "miss him greatly".
"We just lost one of the incredible people in the game of golf and in all of sports," he tweeted.
"Arnold transcended the game of golf. He was more than a golfer or even great golfer. He was an icon. He was a legend."
"Remembering the special times I spent with Mr Palmer at Bay Hill. A true pioneer for our sport. Forever remembered," said Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, hours after winning the Tour Championship in Atlanta.
"My heart aches with passing of the King. What he did for golf cannot be measured. Athlete, pioneer, philanthropist, family man, and much more...RIP Arnie," tweeted US golfer Zach Johnson.
US President Barack Obama also paid tribute to "The King", tweeting a picture of him visiting the White House.
The R&A, which runs The Open and jointly governs golf worldwide, called Palmer a gentleman who would live long in people's memories.
Its chief executive Martin Slumbers said: "It is with great sadness that we have awoken to hear the news of Arnold Palmer's passing. He was a true gentleman, one of the greatest ever to play the game, and a truly iconic figure in sport.
"His contribution to The Open Championship was, and remains, immeasurable. He will be missed and forever remembered by all at The R&A and throughout the world of golf as a charismatic and global champion of our game."
Arnold Palmer was the first golf player to make $1m from playing the sport.
But he made much more than that from his many off-course endorsements, putting his name to a variety of products and services, from United Airlines to Cadillac cars.
Nowadays it is commonplace for sports stars to lend their names to commercial products.
But half a century ago such an association between sport and brands was ground-breaking.
Palmer, in association with marketer Mark McCormack, was the trailblazer in breaking this new ground.
With his winning persona and looks, not to mention golfing ability, Palmer showed that a sportsman or woman could make more from commercial deals than from prize money alone.
It is a legacy for which today's high earning stars, earning astronomical sums from their own deals, should be eternally grateful.
Palmer was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in 1929, the son of a groundskeeper at the local country club who later became the professional at the golf club there.
He was one of golf's most dominant players in the late 1950s and early 1960s, winning seven major titles over seven seasons.
He also notched up 62 PGA Tour wins.
In a 1960 cover story written during his heyday, Time magazine swooned over Palmer, whose fans would flock to tournaments in droves:
"Win or lose, Palmer, with his daring, slashing attack, is fun to watch. He is a splendidly built athlete (5ft 11in, 177 lbs) with strength in all the right places: massive shoulders and arms, a waist hardly big enough to hold his trousers up, thick wrists, and leather-hard, outsized hands that can crumple a beer can as though it were tissue paper.
"Like baseball buffs, golf fans dote on the long-ball hitter; they pack six deep behind the tee to gasp in admiration as Powerman Palmer unwinds to send a 280-yard drive down the fairway."
Palmer is survived by his wife Kathleen Kit Gawthrop, his daughters, stepchildren and a large extended family of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.


World number three Roger Federer says his back has improved as he returns to action in Stuttgart, three weeks before the start of Wimbledon.

The Swiss, 34, withdrew from the French Open, ending a run of 65 consecutive appearances at Grand Slam tournaments.
But the seven-time Wimbledon champion says he benefitted from rest before his return to Stuttgart's grass courts.
"I feel much better again. It's been a good last three weeks. No setbacks," Federer told the ATP website.
"I feel much stronger. I was pretty fragile three weeks ago."
The 17-time Grand Slam champion has been riddled with injuries this year, including an operation on a minor knee problem suffered when running a bath for his twin daughters.
"It's been a tough year," Federer, who has been beaten by newly crowned French Open champion Novak Djokovic in the last two Wimbledon finals, said. "But I'm super excited about playing another tournament.
"It was much better for me to look forward to the rest of the season, rest of my life, really.
"I didn't want to have setback after setback and injure myself maybe further. In hindsight, that was definitely the right decision."


Scientists in America have used a high-speed video to find out how snot, or mucus, travels and separates after it leaves our mouths during a sneeze.

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They discovered that mucus and saliva moves in different ways once it leaves your nose.
It moves in sheets, bursts, bags and strings before it becomes droplets.
It's hoped the research will help experts learn more about how sneezing spreads germs.
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The UK government has set out proposals to ensure trade in goods and services can continue on the day the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.

A position paper calls for goods already on the market to be allowed to remain on sale in the UK and EU without additional restrictions.
It also calls for consumer protections to remain in place.
The Brexit department aims to keep pressure on the EU ahead of the third round of talks in Brussels next week.
A second paper calling for a reciprocal agreement to ensure continued confidentiality for official documents shared by Britain with its EU partners while it was a member state has also been published on Monday.
Further papers are due in the coming days, including one on the crucial issue of the European Court of Justice - a sticking point in talks.
Brussels is refusing to discuss future arrangements, such as trade, until citizens' rights, the UK's "divorce bill" and the Northern Ireland border have been settled.
EU leaders reiterated their stance last week as the UK published proposals about new customs arrangements.
Mr Davis said the latest batch of publications would "drive the talks forward" and "show beyond doubt" that enough progress had been made to move to the next stage of talks.
David Davis said: "These papers will help give businesses and consumers certainty and confidence in the UK's status as an economic powerhouse after we have left the EU.
"They also show that as we enter the third round of negotiations, it is clear that our separation from the EU and future relationship are inextricably linked.
"We have already begun to set out what we would like to see from a future relationship on issues such as customs and are ready to begin a formal dialogue on this and other issues."
But European Commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein said the UK's position papers would not alter the framework for talks drawn up by chief negotiator Michel Barnier and approved by the other 27 EU member states.
"There is a very clear structure in place, set by the EU27, about how these talks should be sequenced and that is exactly what we think should be happening now," Mr Winterstein told a Brussels press conference.
"So the fact that these papers are coming out is, as such, welcome because we see this as a positive step towards now really starting the process of negotiations.
"But as Michel Barnier has said time and again, we have to have sufficient progress first on the three areas of citizens' rights, financial settlement and Ireland, and only then can we move forwards to discussing the future relationship."
He added: "Hopefully we can make fast progress on the three areas I have mentioned because once we have reached sufficient progress there, we can move on to the second stage."
A Downing Street spokesman said: "Both sides need to adopt a flexible approach. We are working at pace. We are confident we will make sufficient progress.
"David Davis has said we want to move to the next stage in October."
Monday's publications urge the EU to widen its "narrow" definition of the availability of goods on the market to also include services, arguing this is the only way to protect consumers and businesses trading before Brexit.
The goods and services paper calls for:
Business group the CBI described Mr Davis's position on trade as a "significant improvement" on EU proposals which would create a "severe cliff-edge" for goods currently on the market.
But CBI campaigns director John Foster said: "The only way to provide companies with the reassurance they need is through the urgent agreement of interim arrangements.
"This would ensure that goods and services can still flow freely, giving companies the certainty they need to invest.
"The simplest way to achieve that is for the UK to stay in the single market and a customs union until a comprehensive new deal is in force."
The most contentious of the week's publications is expected to be about "enforcement and dispute resolution", as it tackles the question of the UK's future relationship with the European Court of Justice.
Theresa May has promised the UK will leave the jurisdiction of the EU court, with the government saying Parliament will "take back control" of its laws.
But the EU has insisted the ECJ must have a role in enforcing citizens' rights, and how to enforce any future trade deal has yet to be agreed.
Other papers expected this week will look at how to maintain the exchange of data with other European countries and future "co-operation" between the different legal systems.


A cyclist was knocked unconscious in a hit and run in Dorset.

The 52-year-old woman had been cycling along Farm Road near Ferndown between 13:30 and 14:30 GMT on Thursday when a car hit the bicycle but failed to stop.
The car has been described as blue with "possibly pink wheels", Dorset Police said.
The victim, from Ferndown, regained consciousness and was taken to Poole General Hospital to be treated for what police described as "serious" injuries.
Police are appealing for witnesses or for information about the driver.


Delhi's chief minister has shut all schools in the Indian capital for three days as its citizens struggle with choking smog.

After an emergency cabinet meeting, Arvind Kejriwal promised a raft of measures to combat the extreme air pollution.
All construction and demolition work has been banned for five days in the city.
Water will also be sprinkled on main roads to help suppress dust.
Mr Kejriwal advised Delhi-ites to stay indoors as much as possible and work from home if they can.
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Other measures announced by the government include fighting fires at landfill sites, and shutting down the coal-based Badarpur power plant.
About 1,800 municipal schools had already been shut in the capital on Saturday because of pollution.
The move came after levels of PM2.5 - tiny particles that can clog people's lungs - soared to over 90 times the level considered safe by the World Health Organization (WHO) and 15 times the Indian government's norms.
Hundreds of people wearing face masks held protests at Delhi's Jantar Mantar monument on Sunday, sharing their fears and frustrations on social media using the hashtag #MyRightToBreathe
India's NDTV quoted an official of the India Meteorological Department, who said visibility in Delhi was just 200m (656ft) at 8.30am local time, "caused by the heavy fog and smoke".
Mr Kejriwal called on India's national government to help control the smog which has enveloped the city since Diwali.
The Hindu Festival of Lights is widely celebrated with fireworks, which release soot and dust into the air.
During the winter months, Delhi's pollution is aggravated by many of the city's poor burning rubbish at night to stay warm.
Agricultural waste is also set on fire around Delhi to clear cropland, and burns for days on end. Technically such fires are banned, but attempts to impose cash fines on farmers who break the law have done little to stop them.
Delhi's air pollution levels have been a concern for some time, and the Indian capital has vied with Beijing for the unwanted title of "world's most polluted city".
The Delhi government has tried various schemes to contain the problem, including a crackdown on diesel vehicles, and a car rationing scheme where those with odd and even registration numbers were banned from the roads on alternate days.
Air pollution is a leading cause of premature death in India. WHO figures show that about 620,000 people perish every year from pollution-related diseases.


A mother has had her murder conviction appeal dismissed after judges rejected a 'rival' confession.

Kerry Holden, 40, was sentenced to at least 18 years in jail after Luke Moran was stabbed to death at a house party in Nottingham in 2011.
She had gone to the Court of Appeal after it emerged another man, who lived nearby, had admitted to the crime.
But judges said the man was mentally ill at the time and had since retracted his confession.
Holden, of Farnborough Road, Clifton, Nottingham, was convicted in 2012 of murdering the 25-year-old after following him into a garden.
Her lawyers claimed the man's confession had made her conviction unsafe.
But Lord Justice Davis said the "purported previous confession" of the other man was "plainly unreliable and incapable of belief".
The court heard the man had been seriously ill with a form of paranoid schizophrenia when he spoke to police and, since he had become well again, had retracted the confession.
There had been no reason to suspect him at the time of the murder and his account of how he had carried it out was "vague", said the judge.


China has passed new laws on foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) state media said, amid criticism.

The full text was not immediately available, but previous drafts stated that NGOs would have to submit to police supervision and declare sources of funding.
Critics say the laws amount to a crackdown, but China has argued that such regulation is long overdue.
There are currently more than 7,000 foreign NGOs operating in China.
The bill has undergone several drafts after international criticism that it was too onerous. The White House has said the bill will "further narrow space for civil society" and constrain US-China exchanges.
Amnesty International said on Thursday that the law was aimed at "further smothering civil society", and called on China to scrap it.
"The authorities - particularly the police - will have virtually unchecked powers to target NGOs, restrict their activities, and ultimately stifle civil society," said William Nee, Amnesty's China Researcher.
"The law presents a very real threat to the legitimate work of independent NGOs and should be immediately revoked."
The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders described the law as "draconian" and said it would have "a profoundly detrimental impact on civil society in China".
The group said police would be allowed to exercise daily supervision and monitoring of foreign NGOs.
Officials in Beijing say that for too long overseas organisations have been operating in an unregulated environment and that the new system will set clear boundaries governing their behaviour.
However some charities, environmental groups and aid organisations see this as a potential tool to crackdown on civil society in China.
They fear that new regulations could provide a smokescreen for what is actually political decision making by giving officials a range of measures to clamp down on NGOs found to be in breach of various technical requirements.
What was adding to stress levels prior to the introduction of the laws is that many were confused about the details.
People are asking: Who do they cover? What will the laws mean for their day to day operations? What are they really designed to do?
Xinhua reported the law had been passed by the national legislature on Thursday, without giving details of any amendments.
The state news agency reported this week that some restrictions would be eased, such as allowing more than one office on the mainland, and removing a proposed five-year limit on operations.
But other key features were likely to remain, said the Global Times, namely heavy police oversight where foreign NGOs must register with public security departments and must submit to their management.
Previous drafts stated that police would have the right to check the offices of NGOs, seal their offices, question employees and cancel activities judged as threats to national security.
Foreign NGOs would also be banned from recruiting members in mainland China, previous drafts had suggested.
Critics had also raised fears that the definition of what constitutes actions that harm China's national interests was too vague.
Correspondents said the ambiguity largely remained in the final version of the law.
Officials who briefed reporters on Thursday declined to give specific examples of actions by NGOs that could constitute such violations, Reuters reported.
"If there are a few foreign NGOs, holding high the banner of co-operation and exchange, coming to engage in illegal activities or even committing criminal acts, our Ministry of Public Security should stop it, and even enact punishments," said Guo Linmao, of the National People's Congress Standing Committee.
The move comes after January's high profile detention of Peter Dahlin, a Swedish NGO worker who was accused of damaging national security.
He made a state television confession - which is rare for foreign detainees - before he was deported. He and his group were accused of breaking the law by supporting the efforts of Chinese human rights lawyers.
Local NGOs and activists are heavily policed and have been subject to increasing crackdowns under President Xi Jinping's rule. Last summer saw sweeping arrests of nearly 300 lawyers and activists.


Tottenham have signed Swansea City pair Ben Davies and Michel Vorm, with Gylfi Sigurdsson moving the other way.

Wales full-back Davies, 21, joins on a five-year deal and Netherlands goalkeeper Vorm, 30, has agreed a four-year contract with the Londoners.
Iceland international midfielder Sigurdsson, 24, has signed a four-year deal with Swansea.
He spent 2011-12 on loan at the Liberty Stadium from German club Hoffenheim, scoring seven goals in 18 appearances.
Spurs are thought to have fought off stiff competition for Davies, with Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers understood to be an admirer.
But Davies said Spurs were "the ones chasing me from the beginning" and that joining the north London club was "too good an opportunity to turn down".
He told Swansea's official website: "I had never thought or wanted to leave Swansea, but an opportunity like this doesn't come up often in your career."
Davies made his debut for the Swans as a 19-year-old in August 2012 and quickly established himself as first-choice left-back when Neil Taylor suffered a long-term injury.
His performances impressed Wales manager Chris Coleman, who handed the Neath-born player the first of his 10 caps in the 2-1 win over Scotland in October 2012.
Vorm was part of the Dutch squad that finished third at the Fifa World Cup in Brazil earlier this month, but his future has looked in doubt at Swansea ever since former Arsenal keeper Lukasz Fabianski was signed in May.
He will compete with France number one Hugo Lloris and 43-year-old Brad Friedel for selection at Spurs.
Sigurdsson arrives at the Liberty after spending two seasons at White Hart Lane, scoring eight goals in 58 top-flight appearances for the London club.
He said: "It was tough leaving a club that I've enjoyed playing for over the last few years, but as soon as Swansea came in it was an easy decision to make."
Spanish forward Michu has left Swansea to join Napoli on loan, while winger Pablo Hernandez is believed to be on the brink of a move to Al Arabi in Qatar.
Swansea boss Garry Monk has also signed ex-Lyon striker Bafetimbi Gomis and Middlesbrough forward Marvin Emnes.
The Welsh club are also thought to be close to completing a deal to sign Ecuador World Cup winger Jefferson Montero from Mexican club Monarcas Morelia.


Quotas for the number of women in boardrooms should not be ruled out, the director of BT in Wales has said.

Ann Beynon said other measures, such as sponsorship and teaching women entering business how to deal with discrimination, are also important.
The latest figures show almost 24% of board positions in the leading British companies are held by women - up from 12.5% in 2011.
She said: "It's getting better, but there's a long way to go."
The European Union has been pushing for legislation to force firms to have at least 40% of their boards made up of women.
Ms Beynon said everybody has the "the responsibility to make sure that woman are not disadvantaged" but added that quotas can be a "negative force".
"I think you need a whole shelf of different solutions," she added.
These include managers sponsoring women to help their careers and preparing them for the discrimination they can face in workplaces, in order to make them "more prepared to fight those battles".
Ms Beynon leaves BT this week after 17 years and has dismissed rumours she plans to stand for a seat in May's Assembly elections.
Instead, she said she plans to stay in the private sector to help grow the Welsh economy.


BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme is exploring the topic of living with loss, through a series of conversations with people in Northern Ireland.

Starting Monday 8 February, it will offer audiences an insight into how different types of loss affects people of all ages and backgrounds, bringing them to the heart of the issue.
The week-long series will feature a daily case study of people sharing their experiences of living with loss.
It will air each night at 17:50 GMT on BBC Radio Ulster.
The Living with Loss series will end with a studio discussion on Friday, 12 February.
Audiences will be able to interact in a number of ways: Tweeting @BBCevex, posting on the Radio Ulster Facebook page, or texting 81771.
BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme is broadcast each weekday from 17:00 GMT.


A breast surgeon accused of carrying out unnecessary operations has denied verbally abusing a witness while she was giving evidence against him.

Ian Paterson denies 20 counts of wounding with intent against nine women and one man at Nottingham Crown Court.
He said he did not direct abusive language at Dr Rosemary Platt as she took the stand, but had said "she wasn't telling the truth".
Dr Platt was one of 10 alleged victims of Mr Paterson.
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The prosecution asked Mr Paterson whether he had called Dr Platt a "lying bitch" as she took the stand at Nottingham Crown Court.
He replied: "No. Why would I use language like that about a patient?
"I said that I thought she wasn't telling the truth."
He also told the court he was not saying the 10 alleged victims were "liars", rather he believes their memories had become confused over time.
Prosecutors claim Dr Platt had three unnecessary operations including a mastectomy of her right breast.
On two occasions Mr Paterson went ahead with procedures without waiting for a report by a specialist breast pathologist, the court heard.
In those cases, the pathologist did not recommend surgery.
Mr Paterson has been giving evidence all week about procedures he carried out between 1997 and 2011 at two West Midlands' hospitals.
He said although he was aware of professional surgical guidelines, they were "not rules or laws, written in stone".
He said while the guidelines were "entirely appropriate" for most patients, they were not a perfect fit for every case.
Jurors have previously heard the 59-year-old surgeon may have carried out some of the unnecessary operations in order to earn extra money.
Prosecutor Julian Christopher QC asked the defendant about a double mastectomy on another patient Frances Perks, when potentially pre-cancerous disease had only been found in one of her breasts.
Mr Paterson, of Ashley, Greater Manchester, said he had been responding to the patient's "obvious distress" by offering her a double mastectomy and had offered to perform the surgery for free as her insurance would only cover surgery on her left breast.
"She even considered funding the anaesthetist's part of the right side herself, but it transpired that didn't happen - I think it was too expensive for her," he said.
Mr Christopher asked: "Did you tell her she would get breast cancer if she didn't have a double mastectomy?"
Mr Paterson said: "I'm not sure I was as stark as that, to be that cruel to a patient - but she was aware of her risk."
The trial continues.


Burton Albion captain John Mousinho says recruiting players who have played in the Championship will be key to their prospects this season.

Three of the Brewers' summer signings - Kyle McFadzean, Chris O'Grady and Ben Turner - have second-tier experience.
Only three other members of their squad, Callum Reilly, Stephen Bywater and Tom Naylor, have featured for Championship teams in the past.
"The more we can add to the squad the better," Mousinho told BBC Radio Derby.
"We've lost a few defenders so we're looking to strengthen there and Championship and Premier League experience is going to be huge for us."
Nigel Clough's side clinched a second successive promotion last season after finishing second in League One - reaching the second tier of English football for the first time in their history.
"We've added a few bits of real experience from the Championship and that bodes well. If you look at players who come in and they have got that experience, it's brilliant to learn from as well," Mousinho continued.
"There are always going to be things we can improve on but as things get closer to the start of the season and we start to prepare then we're going to look at sharpening our game."


An investigation into the death of a workboat skipper at a fish farm on Mull has found the crane collapse which killed him could have been avoided.

Jamie Kerr, 25, died on the vessel, Carol Anne, at Balure in April 2015.
Investigators said the death of Mr Kerr, from Oban, could have been avoided if the crane had been more securely attached to the vessel's deck.
They found the bolts, nuts and washers used to secure it were weaker and fewer than required.
Mr Kerr was working for Inverlussa Marine Services when the accident happened on 30 April last year.
A Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) report published on Thursday said he was supervising a 20-year-old deckhand in unloading the last of the nets at the fish farm when the crane collapsed .
The report states: "Suddenly, there was a loud bang and the crane toppled towards the skipper and the deckhand.
"The deckhand ran aft towards the wheelhouse and the skipper ran forward. As the crane fell, it swivelled towards the slipway. Its boom struck the skipper and pinned him to the bow ramp.
"The deckhand immediately shouted for help and ran to the skipper. One of the shore staff quickly boarded Carol Anne and assisted the deckhand to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Another member of staff telephoned the emergency services."
The reported states that on the advice of the ambulance service, over the telephone, the crane was lifted off the skipper using the telehandler.
The report goes on: "Shortly afterwards, paramedics in a fast-response car and an air ambulance arrived. Efforts to resuscitate the skipper continued but he could not be revived. He was declared deceased at the scene."
The MAIB found that the Atlas 170 crane was not overloaded when it failed.
Investigators found factors contributing to the crane collapsing included no installation guidance being provided with the crane, which was installed six-and-half weeks before the accident, as none was required by law.
The report states: "Had installation information been given, the crane's mounting would have been significantly more secure and its collapse would have been avoided."
Other factors which contributed to the collapse were the bolts, nuts and washers supplied by Atlas (UK) - to secure the crane to the boat's deck - being weaker and fewer than required by the crane manufacturer's installation specifications, and quality control at Atlas (UK) did not prevent this.
The examination and testing of the crane by an an Atlas (UK) service engineer, a week-and-a-half after it was fitted, failed to identify the inadequacy of the crane's mounting arrangement.
Investigators have issued several recommendations, including that German-based crane manufacturer Atlas Maschinen GmbH ensures installation information and guidance is provided with all cranes regardless of whether they are intended for use inside or outside the European Community.
Other recommendations, including that Atlas (UK) ensures fastenings on the same type of crane throughout the UK meet manufacturer's guidelines, have been carried out.


A team from Delft University in the Netherlands has won a solar car race in the Australian outback.

The university's Nuon Solar Team was the first to arrive at the finish line in Adelaide. The 3,000km (1,800 mile) race took four days to complete.
The race, which happens once every two years, started on Sunday in Darwin.
Nearly 50 teams from universities and schools around the world took part. Delft University had also won the last challenge in 2013.
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The winning team celebrated by jumping into the fountain in Adelaide's city centre.
In second place was a team from the University of Twente, also from the Netherlands; while Japan's Tokai University came in third.


Andy Murray and Dominic Inglot are through to the quarter-finals of the doubles at the Monte Carlo Masters.

The British pair lost the first five games against Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and France's Edouard Roger-Vasselin but recovered to win 2-6 6-3 10-5.
British number two Aljaz Bedene was knocked out in the second round of the singles by Spaniard Rafael Nadal.
Bedene, 26, held serve only four times as he lost 6-3 6-3 to eight-time winner and world number five Nadal.
Second seed Murray, 28, continues his singles campaign on Thursday with a third-round match against France's Benoit Paire.
Murray's brother Jamie, 30, also reached the last eight of the doubles alongside Brazilian partner Bruno Soares.
The fourth seeds, who won the Australian Open in January, beat Canada's Daniel Nester and Czech Radek Stepanek 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (11-9) 14-12.


1858 - French colonial rule begins.
Images of Ho Chi Minh abound
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1930 - Ho Chi Minh founds the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP).
1941 - ICP organises a guerrilla force, Viet Minh, in response to invasion by Japan during World War II.
1945 - The Viet Minh seizes power. Ho Chi Minh announces Vietnam's independence.
1946 - French forces attack Viet Minh in Haiphong in November, sparking the war of resistance against the colonial power.
1950 - Democratic Republic of Vietnam is recognised by China and USSR.
1954 - Viet Minh forces attack an isolated French military outpost in the town of Dien Bien Phu. The attempt to take the outpost lasts two months, during which time the French government agrees to peace talks in Geneva.
Vietnam is split into North and South at Geneva conference.
1956 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem begins campaign against political dissidents.
1957 - Beginning of Communist insurgency in the South.
1959 - Weapons and men from North Vietnam begin infiltrating the South.
1960 - American aid to Diem increased.
1962 - Number of US military advisors in South Vietnam rises to 12,000.
1963 - Viet Cong, the communist guerrillas operating in South Vietnam, defeat units of the ARVN, the South Vietnamese Army.
President Diem is overthrown and then killed in a US-backed military coup.
1964 - Gulf of Tonkin incident: the US says North Vietnamese patrol boats fire on two US Navy destroyers. US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorising military action in region.
1965 - 200,000 American combat troops arrive in South Vietnam.
1966 - US troop numbers in Vietnam rise to 400,000, then to 500,000 the following year.
1968 - Tet Offensive - a combined assault by Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army on US positions - begins. More than 500 civilians die in the US massacre at My Lai. Thousands are killed by communist forces during their occupation of the city of Hue.
1969 - Ho Chi Minh dies. President Nixon begins to reduce US ground troops in Vietnam as domestic public opposition to the war grows.
1970 - Nixon's national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, and Le Duc Tho, for the Hanoi government, start talks in Paris.
1973 - Ceasefire agreement in Paris, US troop pull-out completed by March.
Thousands of Vietnamese ''boat people'' fled abroad in overcrowded vessels
1975 - North Vietnamese troops invade South Vietnam and take control of the whole country after South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh surrenders.
1976 - Socialist Republic of Vietnam proclaimed. Saigon is re-named Ho Chi Minh City. Hundreds of thousands flee abroad, including many "boat people".
1979 - Vietnam invades Cambodia and ousts the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot. In response, Chinese troops cross Vietnam's northern border. They are pushed back by Vietnamese forces. The number of "boat people" trying to leave Vietnam causes international concern.
1986 - Nguyen Van Linh becomes party leader. He introduces a more liberal economic policy.
1989 - Vietnamese troops withdraw from Cambodia.
1992 - New constitution adopted allowing certain economic freedoms. The Communist Party remains the leading force in Vietnamese society.
1994 - US lifts its 30-year trade embargo.
1995 - Vietnam and US restore full diplomatic relations. Vietnam becomes full member of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).
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1997 - Le Kha Phieu becomes party leader. Tran Duc Luong chosen as president, Phan Van Khai becomes prime minister.
1998 - A senior party member, Pham The Duyet, faces charges of corruption. Economic growth slumps in the wake of the Asian financial crisis.
1999 - A former high-ranking party member, Tran Do, is expelled after calling for more democracy and freedom of expression.
2000 - US President Bill Clinton pays a three-day official visit. The US pledges more help to clear landmines left over from the Vietnam war. The Vietnamese government estimates nearly 40,000 people have been killed by unexploded munitions.
2001 - The Communist Party chooses Nong Duc Manh as its new leader. US, Vietnam implement a trade agreement which normalises the trade status between them.
2002 - Russia hands back the Cam Ranh Bay naval base, once the largest Soviet base outside the Warsaw Pact. President Tran Duc Luong reappointed for second term by National Assembly, which also reappoints Prime Minister Phan Van Khai for second five-year term.
2004 - First US commercial flight since the end of the Vietnam War touches down in Ho Chi Minh City.
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2005 - Prime Minister Phan Van Khai makes the first visit to the US by a Vietnamese leader since the end of the Vietnam War.
2006 January onwards - Senior officials are investigated over the alleged embezzlement of millions of dollars of state money in the transport ministry.
2006 June - As part of an anticipated political shake-up, the prime minister, president and National Assembly chairman are replaced by younger leaders.
2007 January - After 12 years of talks, Vietnam becomes the 150th member of the World Trade Organization.
2007 February - Government approves a $33bn plan to build a high-speed rail link between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in the south.
2007 February - US agrees for the first time to help fund a study into the removal of Agent Orange, the highly toxic defoliant used by US forces, from a former US base in Da Nang.
2007 June - President Nguyen Minh Triet makes first visit to the US by a Vietnamese head of state since the Vietnam War ended in 1975.
2007 July - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung reappointed, promises to push through economic reforms.
2008 April - Vietnam launches first communications satellite from French Guiana.
2008 October - US and international media campaigners condemn the guilty verdicts on two Vietnamese journalists Nguyen Viet Chien and Nguyen Van Hai, who had helped to expose a major corruption scandal. Nguyen Van Hai pleads guilty and is spared imprisonment.
2008 November - Vietnam says it plans to enforce a two-child policy in an attempt to control population growth.
2008 December - China and Vietnam resolve border dispute 30 years after 1979 war which left tens of thousands dead.
Government bans bloggers from raising "inappropriate" subjects.
2009 January - Jailed journalist Nguyen Viet Chien is among more than 15,000 prisoners freed early under a Lunar New Year amnesty - one of Vietnam's largest.
Government dismisses Nguyen Cong Khe and Le Hoang, the editors of the two largest pro-reform newspapers, over their coverage of the October corruption scandal trial.
2009 June - Vietnam calls on China to stop preventing Vietnamese fishermen from working in what Hanoi says are its territorial waters amid growing tensions over fishing grounds.
2009 October - Six democracy activists sentenced to up to six years in prison for "spreading propaganda" against the government by hanging pro-democracy banners on a road bridge.
Rival claims to ocean areas and islands in the South China Sea have caused much regional tension
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2009 December - Pro-democracy activist Tran Anh Kim receives five-and-a-half-year jail sentence for subversion after allegedly publishing pro-democracy articles on internet.
2010 January - Four activists, including prominent human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh, are jailed on charges of trying to overthrow the government. Rights groups abroad say the case is a sign of an growing clampdown on freedom of expression.
2010 May - Human Rights Watch accuses Vietnam of intensifying its suppression of online dissent.
2010 July/August - The government arrests the chairman of shipbuilding corporation Vinashin, one of the country's largest state-owned companies, for allegedly nearly bankrupting the enterprise.
2011 January - Five-yearly congress of the Communist Party reappoints Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and elects the head of the national assembly, Nguyen Phu Trong, as party secretary-general.
2011 June - Vietnam begins joint operation with the United States to clean up contamination from the toxic Agent Orange defoliant widely used by the US military during the Vietnam war.
2011 October - China and Vietnam sign an agreement to manage the South China Sea dispute. It includes a hotline to deal with emergencies and a provision for twice-yearly bilateral meetings.
2012 June: Vietnam surpasses Brazil to become the world's largest coffee exporter.
2012 October: Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong acknowledges mistakes in preventing corruption in response to public anger over a recent spate of scandals at state-owned enterprises.
2012 November: The Communist-dominated parliament votes to require elected leaders, including the president and the prime minister, to face annual confidence votes. Observers say the votes may be little more than symbolic.
2013 February - Twenty two people sentenced for trying to overthrow the government, in what is seen as a renewed clampdown on freedom of expression.
2013 August - New decree bans internet users from discussing current affairs online.
2013 September - Economy grows by 5.14% in first three quarters of year, marking return to growth after years of stagnation.
2013 October - Leading dissident Le Quoc Quan sentenced to 30 months in jail for tax evasion, charges his supporters say are politically motivated.
2014 January - State media for first time marks anniversary of South Vietnam's 1974 clash with China over Paracel Islands, in sign of growing tension over Chinese intentions in the area.
Court sentences former Vietinbank official Huynh Thi Huyen Nhu to life in prison in possibly country's largest fraud trial. Twenty-two others get jail terms of up to 20 years, but public voices discontent at clearing bank of any liability.
2014 March-April - Vietnam releases high-profile democracy campaigners Cu Huy Ha Vu, Nguyen Tien Trung and Vi Duc Hoi amid Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks with the United States.
At same time prominent bloggers Pham Viet Dao and Truong Duy Nhat jailed for "abusing democratic freedoms to infringe interests of state".
2014 May - One Chinese worker killed and at least 90 other people injured when protesters attack Taiwanese-owned steel mill in Ha Tinh province. Crowds attack several other foreign-owned companies in protest at China's moving drilling rig into waters also claimed by Vietnam in South China Sea.
2014 August - The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey, holds talks with Vietnamese leaders, in the highest level visit by an American military officer since the Vietnam war.
2014 October - The United States says it will partially lift its embargo on arms sales to Vietnam, which has been in place for three decades. Washington says the move applies to weapons for maritime purposes only.
2014 October  - Prominent dissident blogger Nguyen Van Hai is released from prison and flies to the US after serving two years of a 12-year sentence for conducting "anti-state propaganda".
2015 February  - The government revokes licence of outspoken newspaper Nguoi Cao Tuoi website - "Elderly" in Vietnamese - after it publishes articles which allegedly "abuse freedom and democratic rights".
2016 January - Communist Party re-elects conservative Nguyen Phu Trong as general secretary for second term, after relatively liberal Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung withdrew from contest after failing to garner enough support from delegates.
2016 May - US lifts long-standing ban on selling weapons to Vietnam.
2016 July - Government says its Vietnam says it will release 20,000 prisoners  over the next two years to save money.
2016 September - India announces half a billion dollars worth of credit for Vietnam for defence spending.
Vietnam issues an international arrest warrant for oil executive Trinh Xuan Thanh on fraud charges.
2016 November - Police arrest well-known blogger Ho Van Hai for posting articles critical of the government. His arrest is latest of an ongoing crackdown on writers and activists.
2017 January - Vietnam introduces draft law requiring all adult citizens to donate blood once a month due to a shortage at national blood banks.


Special patrols have been set up on Exmoor, Devon, to protect wild red deer.

11 January 2015 Last updated at 09:14 GMT
The animals are being targeted by poachers who want them for their meat and antlers, which can be sold for thousands of pounds.
But now police say new day and night time patrols are helping to keep the deer safe.
Watch Hayley's report to find out more about what is being done...