No one here can answer you this. You just need to read the newspaper and watch the TV news. When there's an increase in any of the ASNB funds, local media will report it and it will be a big news 

Unfortunately i believe this is the case for all non-Bumi.
If your RM is willing to help out, sure he/she can. All he/she needs to do is to have the cash and your passbook so he/she can just deposit all the money into the account whenever there are units available. Usually those ASNB counters tellers are the first to know (whenever someone cash out the money and RMxxxx worth of units suddenly become available).

amanah saham is ivestment, NOT the saving. and no protected, u can read it in prospectus.

depends on how you look at it
if you feel EPF has direct protection from gov
PNB has indirect protection from gov
they would rather bail out PNB than to protect petronas