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REVIEW
MoiTV is Cambodia's state broadcaster on your phone, with all that implies.
A free streaming app from the Ministry of Interior that delivers local channels and government bulletins — useful for Cambodians abroad, but never neutral.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
MoiTV - Cambodia
MINISTRY OF INTERIOR, KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
OUR SCORE
6.6
APPLE
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
Most national broadcasters in Southeast Asia eventually get an app. Few of them are built and published directly by the country’s interior ministry. MoiTV is, and the App Store listing doesn’t bury the lede — the publisher field reads Ministry of Interior, Kingdom of Cambodia, and the stated purpose includes “neutralizing fake information.” That phrase tells you almost everything you need to know about the editorial posture before you press play.
What it doesn’t tell you is whether the app is actually useful, and the answer is a qualified yes. For the Cambodian diaspora and for residents who want their national TV channels and government bulletins in one mobile place, MoiTV does what it sets out to do — live local channels, Khmer-language headlines, regional weather, free, no subscription. The angle worth holding onto is the one most readers will spot themselves: this is state media, not a press-freedom outlet, and the value depends entirely on knowing that going in.
The Ministry of Interior built itself an app, and the editorial line tracks accordingly.
FEATURES
MoiTV is a free iOS app published by the Kingdom of Cambodia's Ministry of Interior. The headline feature is live streaming of local Cambodian television channels alongside curated national and regional news bulletins. The home view sets up a daily briefing — top stories, weather, traffic — and a vertical feed of breaking-news cards that link out to longer-form pieces.
Beyond live channels, the app collects sports, business, and tech wires under a single feed, lets readers react with upvotes, downvotes, and comments, and pushes notifications for major bulletins. A community section invites user-submitted local stories, billed as a way to amplify "geographic coverage" outside Phnom Penh.
There is no subscription, no paywall, and no in-app purchase. The price is your account and your attention.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
For Cambodian nationals living abroad — the diaspora in Long Beach, Paris, Sydney, Phnom Penh's neighbouring provinces — MoiTV solves a genuinely small but real problem: cheap, mobile access to live national channels and Khmer-language headlines without hunting around Facebook or unofficial YouTube re-streams. The app is free, the download is light, and the live-stream playback holds up over middling international connections.
As a one-stop tile of local weather, traffic, and top-of-the-hour news on a phone that already speaks your second language, it does the basic job competently. The reaction buttons and comment threads are also more participatory than most government media apps bother with.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The honest caveat is the publisher. This is the Ministry of Interior's own newsroom on your home screen, and the editorial line tracks accordingly — the App Store copy openly cites "neutralizing fake information" as a mission, which in practice means the government decides what counts as fake. Treat anything political, electoral, or critical of the ruling Cambodian People's Party as filtered.
Outside the politics, the build itself is dated. The English localisation is uneven, the comment system has no visible moderation policy, push notifications skew heavy, and there is no Apple TV companion or AirPlay-friendly player for sending a live channel to the big screen. There's no Android-iOS handoff either — you start a stream on one device and you start over on the next.
CONCLUSION
Install MoiTV if you want a free, mobile, Khmer-language window into Cambodia's national TV channels and government newsroom — that's the niche it fills, and it fills it. Pair it with at least one independent outlet (VOD, CamboJA News, RFA Khmer) so the framing has a counterweight. Skip it entirely if you came looking for entertainment streaming — despite the name, this is news and government broadcasting, not a Netflix-style catalogue.