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To subscribe to the magazine, click here . Since the Asian financial crisis began, Malaysia's national oil company Petroliam Nasional Berhad, or Petronas, has again waded into nonpetroleum investments. Last year it helped buy the debt-burdened shipping assets of a company controlled by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's son. Now it's preparing to buy control of the national car maker. But such ventures are stretching its financial and managerial resources.