G'day, you are quite right, no-one at freighters is permanently based in HK but there are a few guys who volunteer to be rostered out of there temporarily so they can live there. This does mean that they receive no HK allowances eg housing.
To see general info regarding CXF search on my user name, I posted something a while ago concerning rosters money etc for European crews. Cheers. JJB
And cpude, you are wrong, life\'s a dream......