Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is headed to Asia this weekend and Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang wants her to take the message of Internet freedom there with her. A letter from Yang to Rice obtained by CongressDaily urges the U.S. government's top diplomat to help alleviate "the plight of political dissidents who have expressed their views over the Internet in China" and have been jailed. Yahoo took a beating at a high-profile November hearing by the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the company's connection to the imprisonment of a Chinese journalist. Read more in the PM edition.