In Pictures: Queen's Baton Relay in AsiaPublished30 October 2013Shareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage caption, The Queen's Baton is held by an Indian hotel concierge in Agra, India, at the start of the journey to all of the 70 Commonwealth nations and territories, travelling to a total of eight countries in Asia.Image caption, The Queen's Baton Relay arrives in India, the first stop of the international journey. The baton was carried by former Commonwealth athlete Louise Martin who is also Hon. Secretary General of Commonwealth Games Federation and Vice Chair, Organising Committee of the Games.Image caption, Meeting the locals at a market in New Delhi. The Queen's Baton Relay will reach some of the two billion citizens of the Commonwealth as it travels around the globe.Image caption, A woman prepares food near a train line in Dhaka. With over 11 million people the Bangladesh capital is one of the most busiest cities in the world.Image caption, The Queen's Baton is held aloft by Pakistani karate athlete Benish Akbar, with the Badshahi Mosque in the background, in Lahore, Pakistan.Image caption, Abdul Ghafoor (centre left), Pakistan's first Commonwealth weightlifting medallist (in Edinburgh 1970) with his two sons, BBC Queen's Baton Relay presenter Mark Beaumont and Glasgow 2014 baton bearer.Image caption, Traditional Sri Lankan dancers reach for the baton during arrival celebrations. Sri Lanka was the fourth country on the 288-day tour around the Commonwealth.Image caption, Sri Lankan athletic official holds the Queen's Baton during a Commonwealth baton relay event at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage in the Kegalle District of Sri Lanka.Image caption, Rollerblader Lim Wu Kai hands over the Queen's Baton to cyclist Kenneth Kang in Singapore.Image caption, An athlete poses with the Queen's Baton while another takes a picture with a camera phone on the MRT metro system in Singapore.Image caption, The 'Supertrees' lightshow in Singapore - the city state was the sixth stop on the Queen's Baton Relay.Image caption, The Queen's Baton, with PETRONAS Towers in the background, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Image caption, Kampung Baru is a small village surrounded by skyscrapers in the centre of the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.Image caption, Brunei's Maziah Mahusin, the first female athlete to compete for Brunei at the Olympic Games and her training partner Ak Hafiy Tajuddin Rositi.Image caption, Athletes with fencing foils present a guard of honour for the Queen's Baton at the final stop of the Asian leg of the relay in Brunei. The baton will continue the adventure in Oceania as it makes its way around the Commonwealth.More on this storyVillage life in modern Kuala LumpurPublished29 October 2013Wedding Celebration in MalaysiaPublished28 October 2013Pakistan's new comic book heroesPublished24 October 2013Bangladesh's cycling revolutionPublished24 October 2013The ancient art of Indian wrestlingPublished24 October 2013