By Stevenson Swanson, Chicago Tribune May 14--NEW YORK -- With Chinese authorities mobilizing a massive emergency response to Monday's devastating earthquake, international aid agencies remained focused Tuesday on trying to persuade officials of the wary Myanmar government to allow entry of more relief workers and humanitarian supplies 10 days after a cyclone struck the country, killing at least 32,000 people.

NEW YORK _ With Chinese authorities mobilizing a massive emergency response to Monday's devastating earthquake, international aid agencies remained focused Tuesday on trying to persuade officials of the wary Myanmar government to allow entry of more relief workers and humanitarian supplies 10 days after a cyclone struck the country, killing at least 32,000 people.

UN council to hold meeting on emerging food crisis UNITED NATIONS, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The president of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has announced plans to hold a meeting of the council early next month to discuss how to respond to the growing food crisis around the world, a UN spokesperson said Wednesday.

The United Nations issued an appeal for $25 million in humanitarian aid to Tajikistan, in the midst of the harshest winter in living memory. Extreme cold has caused rivers to freeze over and hurt the nation's primary power source, hydroelectric power, a U.N. press release said.

By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS - Computer hackers posted an anti-war message on the U.N.'s official Web site, claiming that U.S. and Israeli policies in the Middle East were taking innocent lives, the United Nations said. The first attack on a U.N. Web page reserved for statements from U.N.