Good luck to any new hire DEC without typhoon experience, and their crew and passengers. That's probably why they are doing it closer to the end of the year, so they can e-mail them some powerpoint slides about it before the crap hits the fan.
Any Captain with significant time in widebody jets willing to move to Hong Kong without a proper contract and a working rostering system either has some serious skeletons in their closet or a screw loose.