MANILA, Philippines - Infrastructure conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) headed by businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan is open to the idea of entering into a joint venture with the state-run Philippine National Construction Corp. (PNCC) for a P23-billion tollroad that would connect the North and South Luzon expressways. Pangilinan, who is chairman of MPIC, said in an interview with reporters that the conglomerate is willing to tie up with the government in order to start the construction of the NLEX-SLEX Connector road project "If that's the government's desire, we will follow. We're prepared to enter into some joint venture framework with PNCC so we could begin construction and complete the connector. We have no problem with that," Pangilinan said.