Philippine Senator Miriam Santiago called the "Iron Lady of Asia", died peacefully in her sleep just this morning, Thursday at 8:52 while battling her lung cancer, a long-time illness. The presidential hopeful was confined at the St. Luke's Medical Center in Bonifacio Global City.

The late politician admitted in 2014 that she has a lung cancer which already reached to stage 4. Physical frailty is evident during her campaign for the presidential race on May 29 where she took a long recession. It is noticeable of her less appearance during the campaign period with Senator Bongbong Marcos.