China has resumed blocking access to the internet sites of some foreign media, including the BBC, human rights groups said today.

ATTACKERS jumped from a vehicle and slashed at civilian guards at a roadside checkpoint in China’s far west yesterday. Three were killed, extending a surge of violence that has accompanied the Olympic Games in Beijing.

CHINA said yesterday that it had uncovered a plot by members of a Muslim minority group to sabotage the Beijing Summer Olympics with suicide bombings and kidnappings of foreign visitors.