【明報專訊】FINANCIAL SECRETARY John Tsang first forecast a surplus of $9.1 billion in this year's budget. However, according to various sources, this year's surplus may reach $60 billion and even top $70 billion, far exceeding the original estimate. The government announced earlier it had put $27 billion from the Exchange Fund into a newly-created Housing Reserve so that the authorities will have the money they need to carry out their plan of building around 300,000 public rental housing (PRH) units and subsidised sale flats in the next decade. This sum taken into consideration, this year's financial surplus will amount nearly to $100 billion. Because of this and the fact that the government's financial reserves will come nearly to $800 billion, it is basically accurate to say the public coffers are flooded with money.