Mexico City, Jun 16 (EFE).- A magnitude-5.8 earthquake rocked southern Mexico early Sunday, but no injuries or serious damage have been reported, the National Seismology Service said. The temblor's epicenter was located 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) southeast of Huitzuco, a city in the southern state of Guerrero. The earthquake occurred around 12:19 a.m., with the magnitude initially revised upward to 5.9 and 6.0 but later set at 5.8, the service said.

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Jun 12 (EFE).- The Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, candidate for mayor of Guadalupe y Calvo, a city in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, was apparently kidnapped by gunmen, officials said. Jaime Orozco Madrigal has been missing since Monday night, the Chihuahua Attorney General's Office said. "While no reports have been filed over his disappearance, there is evidence that confirms a report that the candidate was deprived of his freedom by an armed group," the AG's office said in a statement.

Mexico City, Jun 4 (EFE).- Chinese tourist arrivals to Mexico grew 35.1 percent in the first quarter of 2013 over they same period last year, the Tourism Secretariat said Tuesday. From January to April, "Mexico received 19,635 tourists coming from China," the secretariat said in a communique. The favorite destinations of Chinese visitors are Mexico City, Cancun, Tijuana, Guadalajara, Los Cabos, Monterrey and Puerto Vallarta.

Mexico City, May 28 (EFE).- Archaeologists discovered eight temporary camps in the Sierra del Mayor mountains, in the Mexican state of Baja California, that date from 400 to 7,000 years ago, the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said. In the camps associated with the Cocopah culture were found hundreds of animal bones, some from extinct species, ceramics, stoneware, and places where iron oxide was mined to make pigment for murals and body painting.