TAIPEI - A TAIWANESE woman's ambition to kiss 100 men in Paris has become an overnight Web sensation after she provided details of the quest on her much-visited blog.

Ms Yang Ya-ching, a 27-year-old music major living in the French capital, has so far notched up 54 smooches, she said on her blog, which features photos of some of the encounters.

Collaborators in her project included a factory worker, a model, an Italian tourist and even a soldier visiting the capital of romance for Bastille Day.