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The Chinese government will spend a further US$146bn to boost growth in an economy lagged by Covid-related lockdowns and a real estate crisis. Are the increasing fears of a recession in the world's second largest market justified? We ask Finn Mayer-Kuckuk, editor in chief of China Table.

Google has changed the way it calculates the environmental impact of flights. The result is that journeys seem to produce less CO2 emissions than before. The firm says it is trying to provide a more accurate estimation to users. We talk to David Lee, professor of Atmospheric Science at Manchester Metropolitan University, about the challenges of making these calculations.

Japan is considering building new nuclear reactors and reactivating many of the plants that went idle after the Fukushima disaster, in 2011. We hear more from Yukari Yamashita, the Managing Director of the Institute of Energy Economics in Japan.

Has inflation triggered a price war in the fried chicken shelves? The 麻豆约拍's Andrew Wood talks to Joe McPherson, a Korean food blogger in Seoul known as Zen Kimchi.

And we discuss the latest from the markets with Hargreaves Lansdown's Emma Wall.

(Picture: A restaurant in China. Picture credit: EPA)