Hanoi, April 29 -- Hanoi (VNA) - Police of the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Cambodia on April 29 agreed to broaden the scope of their joint investigations to include drug-related crimes and online gambling.

Acting Chief of the RoK's National Police Agency (NPA) Yoo Jae-seong said he and his Cambodian counterpart Sar Thet reached the agreement for the Cambodia-based joint investigation team during their talks in Seoul as part of efforts to root out transnational crime involving the RoK, according to the NPA.

The Cambodian-Korean Joint Task Force for Koreans was launched late last year to tackle scam crimes involving Korean nationals in the Southeast Asian country in response to the torture death of a Korean college student earlier that ye...